The Doubting Knot of the Manas

When eliminating self-view (ātma-dṛṣṭi), one must eliminate the fetter of doubt among the three fetters; one cannot merely eliminate the doubt of the mind consciousness while leaving the doubt of the manas uneliminated. If the manas carries its doubt regarding self-view into the neutrino-body (antarā-bhava), one cannot escape the three evil destinies, being bound by the fetter of doubt and unable to attain liberation from the three evil destinies. Only when the doubt of the manas is resolved is ignorance broken; when all the doubts of the manas have been resolved and ignorance is completely eliminated, one will attain buddhahood. There has never been a single Buddha whose manas carried the bondage of doubt to attain buddhahood, nor a bodhisattva whose manas carried the fetter of doubt to become a Mahāyāna bodhisattva who has broken through beginningless ignorance (avidyā), still less a noble one of the path of liberation whose manas carried the fetter of doubt to attain liberation from the suffering of birth and death within the three realms.