大乘起信論略述 2.165

2.165

[Treatise:] Answer: ... because the dharmakāya does not appear. [Commentary:] This is the answer. "All Buddha-Tathāgatas" and so forth: first, presenting the Dharma. "The dharmakāya is impartial and pervades all places": because it is impartially pervasive in the minds of sentient beings. "Without deliberate attention, hence called spontaneous": because it can arouse functions without effort. "Merely appearing in accordance with sentient beings' minds": relying on their aversion [to saṃsāra] and aspiration [for awakening], in accordance with their superiority or inferiority, it immediately manifests the coarse and subtle functions of enjoyment and transformation bodies. "Sentient beings' minds are like a mirror" and so forth: next, presenting the simile. From "in this way" onward: afterwards, matching the Dharma [to the simile]. "The mind having defilement": this means having the fault of clinging to birth and death without the capacity of aversion and aspiration to see the Buddha; this is called having defilement. "The dharmakāya does not appear": the dharmakāya is pervasive in the minds of sentient beings, yet cannot manifest the functions of the enjoyment and transformation bodies. It is not that it fails to appear due to the defilement of afflictions, for in the affliction-ridden minds of Sunakkhatta and others, they also saw the Buddha.