All Dharmas Are Like Illusions

The tathāgatagarbha illusorily manifests some mental sense-object realms (dharma-viṣaya), which are what is called the subjectively imagined realm; then it further illusorily manifests the mind consciousness, which is the solitary consciousness (mano-vijñāna-eka-citta). The mind consciousness arises with the function of discrimination, and thereby knows the mental sense-object realm. During this process, the mental sense-object realm did not come, and the mind consciousness did not go, yet the characteristics of the realm were known—this shows that all dharmas neither come nor go. The arising and ceasing of all dharmas is also an illusory appearance; therefore all dharmas neither arise nor cease.