Lankavatara Sutra, Vol. 2
The Blessed One replied: "No, Mahamati, my Tathagatagarbha is not
the same as the ego taught by the philosophers; for what the Tathagatas teach is the
Tathagatagarbha in the sense, Mahamati, that it is empty in nature, reality-limit, Nirvana, being unborn, imagelessness, and devoid of will-effort; the reason why
the Tathagatas who are Arhats and Fully-Enlightened Ones, teach the doctrine
pointing to the Tathagatagarbha is to make the ignorant cast aside their fear
when they listen to the teaching of egolessness and to have them realize the
state of nondiscrimination and imagelessness. I also wish, Mahamati, that the
Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas of the present and future would not attach themselves
to the idea of an ego [imagining it to be a soul]."
《楞伽阿跋多羅寶經》卷2
佛言：「大慧！我說如來藏，不同外道所說之我。大慧！如來應正等覺，以性空、實際、涅槃、不生、無相、無願等諸句義說如來藏；為令愚夫離無我怖，說無分別、無影像處如來藏門。未來、現在諸菩薩摩訶薩，不應於此執著於我。
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