大乘起信論略述 1.77

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論。所言覺義至說名本覺　述曰。此下第三依名辨釋。於中有三。初辨覺義。次明不覺。後雙辨同異。覺中有二。先略辨二覺。後廣明二覺。初中亦二。先本。後始。本中又二。初顯本覺體。後顯本覺名。此初也。本覺體者。取於一心隨緣門中無念真性。而此真性本無不覺。故云覺者心體離念。此約性德翻染得名。異絕於如故。生滅攝離念覺相者等。彼空界橫遍三際竪通凡聖。故云無所不通。在纏出纏性恒無二。故云法界一相。欲明覺義。與彼出纏如來法身性無差別。故云即是如來平等法身。既依此覺當顯法身即是果位法身之本故。依法身說名本覺。

[Treatise:] "The meaning of awakening is […] is called original awakening." [Commentary:] Next, the third [part] distinguishes and explains according to the names. Here there are three: first, distinguishing the meaning of awakening; next, clarifying non-awakening; finally, distinguishing both sameness and difference. Within awakening there are two: first, briefly distinguishing the two awakenings; next, extensively explaining the two awakenings. In the first there are also two: first, original [awakening]; next, initial [awakening]. In original [awakening] there are also two: first, revealing the essence of original awakening; next, revealing the name of original awakening. This is the first. The essence of original awakening is taken from the true nature devoid of thought within the approach of the one mind that accords with conditions. Since this true nature originally has no non-awakening, it says: "Awakening means that the essence of the mind is free from thought." This is designated by overturning defilement in terms of inborn virtues. Because it is distinct from suchness [as an unconditioned absolute], it is subsumed under arising and ceasing. As for "the marks of awakening that are free from thought," they are equal to the realm of space: horizontally pervasive across the three periods of time, vertically penetrating through ordinary beings and sages; thus it says, "there is nowhere it does not penetrate." In bondage and free of bondage, its nature is perpetually non-dual; thus it says, "the one mark of the dharmadhātu." Intending to clarify that the meaning of awakening has no distinction in nature from the Tathāgata's dharmakāya that is free of bondage, it says, "it is precisely the Tathāgata's equal dharmakāya." Since relying on this awakening the dharmakāya is to be revealed, it is the root of the fruitional dharmakāya; therefore, relying on the dharmakāya, it is called "original awakening."