[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大乘起信論略述](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813) › 1.172 # 大乘起信論略述 1.172 大乘起信論略述 1.172 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.172) 論。答曰所言至非心體滅　述曰。下答有三。謂法喻合。此初也。謂前所言境界滅時相應心滅者。妄境滅故但是事識麁心相滅。非謂事識真心體滅。無明既非真心。自體得對治時無明滅。故彼不相應三細心相得究竟滅。而亦非是真心體滅。此即略答前二問也。 > Treatise: "Answer: What is said \[to cease is only the characteristics of the mind that cease,\] not the essence of the mind that ceases." > Exposition: The answer below has three parts: doctrine, metaphor, and application. This is the first part. What was stated earlier—that when objects cease the concordant mind ceases—means that because deluded objects cease, only the coarse mental characteristics of the consciousness of phenomena cease, not that the true mental essence of the consciousness of phenomena ceases. Since ignorance is not the true mind, when its own essence attains the antidote, ignorance ceases; therefore those unconcorded three fine mental characteristics attain complete cessation, yet it is also not that the true mental essence ceases. This then briefly answers the previous two questions. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.171](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.171) - [Next: 1.173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.173) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813~en-mt.1.172) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2813.1.172) · Pramāṇa