Analysis Of Yoga In Samdhinirmocana Sutra

Author(s): Shinjo Kawasaki
Publisher: Shinjo Kawasaki

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Analysis of Yoga in the Samdhinirmocana-sutra
pratibimba) is not the meditative object of (Calming).
7) "Bhagavat! Between the image in the scope of concentration (possessed by the Bodhisattvas skilled) in Clear Vision (vipaśyanā-samādhi-gocara-pratibimba)* and the thought (citta), is there a difference or none?
"Maitreya! There is no difference.
"Why is there no difference?
"Because the image is no more than the representation (vijñapti-mātra). Maitreya, as I taught before, the meditative object of perception becomes manifest as 'what is represented only' (vijñāna-alambanam vijñapti-mātra-prabhāvitam).
"Bhagavat! When the image in the scope of concentration is not different from the thought, how can the thought perceive (utprekṣate) the thought itself?
The Answer: "Maitreya! It is true that here in this world there is nothing that can perceive itself (kartṛ karman). But, the thought thus produced (evam utpanna-citta) would make a manifestation of imagery in this way (evam avabhāsate) (having double aspects of the perceiving thought and the thought to be perceived).
"Maitreya ! For instance, when a form (rūpa ) is given, on the cleaned up surface of a mirror, we would be likely to assume that we perceive not only the form itself but also the image of the form (reflected in the mirror). In that case, the image appearing in this way (on the surface of the mirror)
* rnam par lta bar bgyid pa shes bya ba ni lhag mthon daň ldan paḥi rnal hbyor pa rnam par mi rtog pahi śes pa rtogs paḥo // (One who observes (vyavalokayitr) means a Yogin endowed with clear vision who comprehends the things with nirvikalpa-jñāna. SNSV. p. 162a. R. E.
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