An awakening that fails to distinguish the true from the false is mere conjecture and speculation

The manas governs the six consciousnesses in their joint operation upon form, sound, smell, taste, touch, and dharma; one may say this is the combined functioning of the eight consciousnesses, in which both the true mind and the deluded mind are present—lacking any one of them, not a single dharma could arise or operate. Therefore, some people say they have awakened to a certain dharma, yet in the operation of that dharma both the true consciousness and the deluded consciousness are present. So what exactly did they awaken to—the true mind, the deluded mind, or the coalescence of the true and the deluded? If this extremely crucial point is not understood clearly, then there is fundamentally no difference between the awakening they speak of and non-awakening.

Some will say, "I know that the tathāgatagarbha exists in this dharma, so I have awakened." But the seven consciousnesses also exist in this dharma; if there were only the tathāgatagarbha without the seven consciousnesses, no dharma could exist at all—how could it continue to operate? To forcibly attribute the functions and roles of the seven consciousnesses to the tathāgatagarbha—what is awakened to is nothing more than the combined body of the eight consciousnesses. What kind of awakening is that supposed to be?