6. Things must have an attribution. Transmission of light is attributable to
doors and windows, light is attributable to the sun and moon. Borrowing
them for myself, after all I find "it is not mine." When it comes to where "it
is not you," then who attributes if not you?
7. "Light is attributable to the sun and moon." When you see the light of the
sun and moon, there is nothing to attribute it to. Sometimes there is no sun
or moon in the sky, but there is never an absence of the essence of seeing
that sees the sun and moon.
8. If so, then can that which discriminates sun and moon be considered
one's own possession? Don't you know that discrimination is based on light
and dark? When both light and dark are forgotten, then where is
discrimination? Therefore there is still attribution; this is an internal object.
9. Only the seeing essence cannot be attributed to anything. But if when
seeing seeing, seeing is not seeing, then the seeing essence also has an
attribution, which refers back to the seeing essence of the revolving flow of
consciousness, alluded to in Buddhist scripture where it says, "Using your
flowing revolving consciousness is called error."
10. When first practicing the eight attributions for discerning perception, the
first seven show how each is attributable to something, temporarily leaving
the seeing essence as a crutch for the practitioner. But ultimately as long as
the seeing essence still carries with it the eighth consciousness, it is not
