大乘入道次第開決 1.185

1.185

Regarding "Now revealing that internal dharmas resemble that deluded sentiment": This reveals the meaning of "resemblance" to dispel an external objection. The external objection states: "If there is an external dharma that is what is resembled, there should be an external dharma. If there is no external dharma, what is resembled? Because there is nothing resembled, the meaning of resemblance is not established; how can one say that the mind resembles external objects?" Hence it is now explained: What is called "resemblance" means revealing that internal dharmas resemble the grasping mind. "Internal dharmas" are the object-aspects transformed by the mind, which are truly only internal; deluded sentiment fails to comprehend this and grasps them as being outside the mind. Therefore, it is said that internal dharmas resemble that deluded sentiment; it does not say that internal dharmas resemble external objects.