Lankavatara Sutra 2:VI
2.VI
English
Furthermore, Mahamati! There are seven aspects of the Ultimate Principle, which are —
the realm of mind,
the realm of wisdom,
the realm of knowledge,
the realm of perception,
the realm surpassing dualistic perception,
the realm surpassing the ground of universal reverence, and
the realm of the tathagata’s self-arrival.
Mahāmati! This is the nature of self-nature—what all Tathāgatas, worthy and fully awakened across time, embody as the Ultimate Principle.
With the Mind of Ultimate Principle—the nature of self-nature— the sacred eye of wisdom is established, seeing into individual and shared characteristics of the tathagata’s world, beyond the world, and in the highest dharma beyond both. As this is established, it does not align with the distorted views of externalist schools.
Mahāmati! What is the thesis of false perception shared with the heterodox? The distinctions between falsely imagined self-generated realms and the appearance of one’s own mind are not understood. Mahāmati! The ignorant, deluded, and unenlightened formulate dualistic positions of nature, non-nature, self-nature, and the Ultimate Principle.
Furthermore, Mahāmati: The cessation of deluded cognition and the suffering of the three realms, ignorance, craving, karma, and conditions, the mirage-like realms manifested by one’s own mind are perceived accordingly. I will now explain.
Chinese
「復次，大慧！有七種第一義，所謂：心境界、慧境界、智境界、見境界、超二見境界、超子地境界、如來自到境界。大慧！此是過去未來現在，諸如來、應供、等正覺，性自性第一義心[7]。以性自性第一義心，成就如來世間、出世間、出世間上上法，聖慧眼入自共相建立；如所建立，不與外道論惡見共。大慧！云何外道論惡見共？所謂：自境界妄想見，不覺識自心所現，分齊不通。大慧！愚癡凡夫，性、無性、自性、第一義，作二見論。
「復次，大慧！妄想三有苦滅，無知愛業緣滅，自心所現幻境隨見。今當說。
Interlinear
「復次，大慧！有七種第一義，所謂：心境界、慧境界、智境界、見境界、超二見境界、超子地境界、如來自到境界。
Furthermore, Mahamati! There are seven aspects of the Ultimate Principle, which are —
the realm of mind,
the realm of wisdom,
the realm of knowledge,
the realm of perception,
the realm surpassing dualistic perception,
the realm surpassing the ground of universal reverence, and
the realm of the tathagata’s self-arrival.
大慧！此是過去未來現在，諸如來、應供、等正覺，性自性第一義心[7]
Mahāmati! This is the nature of self-nature—what all Tathāgatas, worthy and fully awakened across time, embody as the Ultimate Principle..
以性自性第一義心，成就如來世間、出世間、出世間上上法，聖慧眼入自共相建立；如所建立，不與外道論惡見共。
With the Mind of Ultimate Principle—the nature of self-nature— the sacred eye of wisdom is established, seeing into individual and shared characteristics of the tathagata’s world, beyond the world, and in the highest dharma beyond both. As this is established, it does not align with the distorted views of externalist schools.
大慧！云何外道論惡見共？所謂：自境界妄想見，不覺識自心所現，分齊不通。大慧！愚癡凡夫，性、無性、自性、第一義，作二見論。
Mahāmati! What is the thesis of false perception shared with the heterodox? The distinctions between falsely imagined self-generated realms and the appearance of one’s own mind are not understood. Mahāmati! The ignorant, deluded, and unenlightened formulate dualistic positions of nature, non-nature, self-nature, and the Ultimate Principle.
「復次，大慧！妄想三有苦滅，無知愛業緣滅，自心所現幻境隨見。今當說。
Furthermore, Mahāmati: The cessation of deluded cognition and the suffering of the three realms, ignorance, craving, karma, and conditions, the mirage-like realms manifested by one’s own mind are perceived accordingly. I will now explain.