The Power of Determination (adhimokṣa) Toward the Tathāgatagarbha

Meditative concentration (samādhi), wisdom, and understanding are mental factors (caittas) of the consciousness-mind; they are the functions of the consciousness-mind, belonging to the five particular mental factors. For the seventh consciousness, they arise one at a time, not operating at every moment; what operates at every moment are the five universal mental factors. However, the seventh consciousness of all Buddhas possesses meditative concentration and wisdom at every moment and in every place—not arising one at a time, but operating at all times. The tathāgatagarbha's meditative concentration, wisdom, and determination (adhimokṣa), however, are operating at every moment, in every instant, and in every place—even within nirvāṇa without remainder (anupadhiśeṣa-nirvāṇa), it is just like this.

If, when the tathāgatagarbha gives rise to the ear faculty, gives rise to the five-aggregate body, and gives rise to all dharmas, its power of meditative concentration were suddenly insufficient, its power of wisdom also insufficient, and it did not know what the karmic seeds were like, what would the result be? The result would be that the tathāgatagarbha, through a moment's carelessness, might deliver too small a quantity of the four great element seeds, or get their proportional structure wrong, or deliver the seeds incorrectly; then the dharmas that arise would be completely mismatched, all dharmas would be utterly transformed beyond recognition, and the world would descend into chaos. If the tathāgatagarbha did not possess extremely strong power of determination (adhimokṣa) and could not understand the intentions of the manas, what would the result be? All dharmas would not appear in a reasonable way, would not appear as intended; the vows made by sentient beings would be useless, all thoughts would be useless, and the five-aggregate world would no longer function normally.