大乘起信論略述 1.94

1.94

[Treatise:] "What does this mean?"

Commentary: Next, the second part uses a question-and-answer to resolve doubts. Herein are two parts: first the question, then the answer. This is the first. The purport of this question is: as stated above, stirring that pure mind constitutes the preceding arising and ceasing, which means arising and ceasing in its entirety is nothing but the pure mind. If arising and ceasing are severed, the pure mind should be extinguished; how is it that one only breaks through the phase of the compounded consciousness to manifest the dharmakāya, and extinguishes the phase of the continuous mind to form pure and genuine cognition?