弘明集 13.9

13.9

色痛痒思想生死識。謂之五陰。凡一物外有形可見者為色。失之則憂惱為痛得則歡喜為痒。未至逆念為思。過去追憶為想。心念始起為生。想過意識滅為死。曾關於心戢而不忘為識。識者經歷累劫。猶萌之於懷。雖昧其所由而滯於根。潛結始自毫釐終成淵岳。是以學者務慎所習。

Form, feeling, perception, impulse, life-and-death, and consciousness are called the five skandhas. In every case, that which possesses an externally visible corporeal form is form. When losing it, the distress and vexation is feeling as pain; when acquiring it, the joy and delight is feeling as pleasure. Anticipatory thought before something arrives is conceptualization. Recollecting the past is perception. The initial arising of a mental thought is life [or origination]; when a perception passes and the mental consciousness ceases, it is death [or cessation]. What was once linked to the mind, collected and unforgotten, is consciousness. As for consciousness, it passes through accumulated kalpas and still sprouts within the breast; though one may be benighted as to whence it arose, it clings to the faculties. Secretly knotting together, it begins from a minute fraction and culminates in deep abysses and lofty mountains. For this reason, practitioners must be prudent about what they habituate themselves to.