大乘起信論略述 2.14

2.14

[Treatise:] Having faith in one's own nature [...] neither grasping nor thinking. [Commentary:] Below, the functional efficacy of perfuming is revealed. There are two parts within this: first clarifying the cause, and then revealing the fruit. This is the first. There are two sections in the text. "Having faith in one's own nature," and so forth, refers to cultivating understanding based on faith; that is, having faith that one's own nature is fundamentally free from active thought, and cultivating the Dharma of freedom from thought as the primary cause. From "knowing in accordance with reality" onward, it refers to cultivating what is [realized] based on understanding, according with the wondrous ground of suchness without abiding, which serves as the auxiliary condition. In all that is cultivated, one perceives no marks of practice and expects no different fruit; hence it is said, "neither grasping nor thinking."