大乘起信論略述 2.160

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[Treatise:] Question: ... is called all-seed cognition? [Commentary:] Next, resolving doubts below, there are two questions and answers: first, revealing that the essence of cognition is accomplished through severing avidyā; afterwards, revealing that the function of cognition is able to benefit universally. In the first there are two parts: first, the question; afterwards, the answer. This is the first. "Empty space is boundless" and so forth: raising the difficulty of knowing the realm in order to state the basis of the objection. "If avidyā is severed": showing that there is nothing able to understand, thus initiating the doubt. Namely, avidyā is the basis of mental marks; mental conception is indeed the basis of wisdom. If avidyā is severed, there is no mental conception; because mental conception is absent, wisdom is also absent. How then can one know boundless realms everywhere, saying that the severance of avidyā accomplishes all-seed cognition?