Affliction is Bodhi.

Awareness is divided into true awareness and false awareness. The mind that can be aware of afflictions is necessarily the false awareness of the seventh consciousness, whereas true awareness is not aware of these. Because of the awareness of the false mind, sentient beings know that they have afflictions; because of the awareness of the true mind, sentient beings can give rise to afflictions, manifest afflictions—only then can afflictions appear, and only then can one introspect upon one's own afflictive nature. These two kinds of awareness play different roles: false awareness can perceive, and false awareness itself inherently has afflictions—it is perceiving its own afflictions. True awareness is the source from which afflictions arise, but it does not perceive afflictions.

Therefore it is said that afflictions are bodhi. The relationship between afflictions and bodhi is that they are neither identical nor different. Neither identical: bodhi is not equal to afflictions—afflictions arise and cease, while bodhi neither arises nor ceases; afflictions depend on bodhi to arise, while bodhi does not arise from anything else, exists without relying on external conditions, and when afflictions cease, bodhi does not cease. Neither different: afflictions originate from bodhi, are a part of bodhi, and are also a manifestation of bodhi's function. Therefore, wherever there are afflictions, bodhi can surely be found. Enlightenment means recognizing, amid such afflictive affairs as eating, drinking, relieving oneself, walking, standing, sitting, lying down, talking, and laughing, that mind-substance of bodhi which is free of all these afflictions.