May 6

May 6, 2018
慧淨上人法語
佛法知見

On what is our ordinary being’s mind based? Our mind-nature is based on the Six Consciousness. The Six Consciousness [i.e. seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and knowing] are produced by the Six Indriyas [or Six Internal Bases, or Six Sense-Organs, i.e. eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind] and the respective Six Gunas [or Six External Dusts, i.e. form, sound, smell, taste, touch, and idea/symbol]. Being produced by the conditional amalgamation of the organs and the dusts, they are amalgamation of cause and condition. Since the cause and condition itself is impermanent, there is no substance and no self-nature. So, they are unreal and false. Now that the realms relative to the organs and the dusts are unreal and false, the mind-consciousness produced by the Six Consciousness, of course, is also unreal and false.

我們凡夫依什麼為心呢？是以六識為我們的心性。六識就是六根對六塵所產生的六識，既然是根塵和合所產生的，就是因緣所和合的，因緣本身是生滅無常、沒有本體、沒有自性的，所以它是虛妄的。根塵相對的既然是虛妄的境界，當然所產生的六識也是虛妄的心識。

Namo Amitabha!