What is 尽所有性、如所有性?

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I have often encountered this phrase 尽所有性、如所有性 used in discourses by Venerables.

Master Ri-Chang has used it much too.

In his Lamrim Commentary Track 69A, there is a English Translation:

both the real nature and the diversity of phenomena

However, I think Master Ri-Chang’s explanation in Chinese is much more relatable to me:

这“如所有性”就是换句话说，一切法的真如，简单地说。换句话说，我们就说：喏！这个一切法的真相，或者说它的本性，或者说空性，就是这个。“尽所有性”呢，说 (p143) 一切法现出来的相，那就是这些啦，或者是五蕴啦、什么六入啦、十八界啦，换句话说这个法在圈子里面就是这个，它就是它整个的边际。那进一步来说，就是那一个空性所现出来的行相、法相，或者缘起，或者是俗谛，种种所牵涉的，你归纳起来，那不外乎说五蕴，乃至于到十八界等等，这一些。

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《大般若波罗蜜多经》卷第五百二十五

尔时善现便白佛言:“佛说一切智智为一切智智耶?”
佛告善现:“我说一切智智为一切智智。”
具寿善现复白佛言:“世尊。常说一切智智略有三种。谓一切智、道相智、一切相智。如是三智其相云何有何差别?”
佛告善现:“一切智者谓共声闻及独觉智。道相智者谓共菩萨摩诃萨智。一切相智者谓诸如来应正等觉不共妙智。”

《大智度论》卷八十四释三慧品所说之一切智、道种智、一切种智。

1.一切智：即了知一切诸法总相之智。总相即空相。此智乃声闻、缘觉之智。The sublime wisdom

2.道相智： 又云道种智、道种慧。即了知一切诸法别相之智，别相即种种差别之道法!此智乃菩萨之智。

根本无分别智——如所有性（唯识）、见一切法的特质、见空。天台讲的“胜义谛”。Wisdom that understands the real nature of phenomena[emptiness]. (根本)无分别智 The nonconceptual sublime wisdom.

后得无分别智——尽所有性（唯识）、见一切法的缘起、见有。天台讲的“俗谛”。Wisdom that understands the diversity of phenomena.

3.一切相智：又云一切种智、一切智智。即通达总相与别相智，即佛智。Sublime wisdom of omniscience 台家认此三智为修空、假、中三观所成，即一切智为空观所成，道种智为假观所成，一切种智为中观所成。

There are two kinds of certain goodness: the liberation that is mere freedom from cyclic existence and the sublime state of omniscience.
【决定胜中，略有二种，谓证解脱仅出生死及一切种智位，】 https://bwmonastery.org.sg/lr33a

Vairocana’s Great Enlightenment Discourse says: Lord of Secrets, the sublime wisdom of omniscience comes from compassion as its root. It comes from the spirit of enlightenment as its cause. It is brought to completion by method.
【如《毗卢遮那现证菩提经》云：“秘密主，一切种智者，从大悲根本生，从菩提心因生，以诸方便而至究竟。”】 https://bwmonastery.org.sg/lr105b

If it were correct, then the children of the conquerors who have ascended to the great levels where they have attained the nonconceptual sublime wisdom that perceives the ultimate truth, and, in particular, the eighth-level bodhisattvas, who have control over nonconceptual wisdom, would not need the bodhisattva deeds.
【此若是实，则已获得无分别智，证胜义谛大地菩萨，及诸特于无分别智获得自在八地菩萨不须修行，然此非理。】 https://bwmonastery.org.sg/lr106b

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thank you for providing more information :pray:

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Adding a relevant portion from Master Ri-Chang’s Lamrim Commentary: Track 141b

【诸大经论所说，修习缘如所有及尽所有般若自性毗钵舍那之次第，及修习静虑自性，奢摩他之次第，后当广释。】
**Below, I will teach at length two topics that come from the classic texts: the stages of how to practice insight—wisdom that observes the real nature and the diversity of phenomena—and the stages of the practice of meditative serenity, which is meditative stabilization.

要了解一切法的真相。那么一切法的真相分两部分：一个叫如所有性，一个叫尽所有性。所谓如所有性是一切法的共相，什么？空性，平常我们说真如，即所有一切事情的真如，我们天台或者所立的叫真谛。那么尽所有性是什么呢？换句话说，平常我们说的俗谛，就一切杂染、清净法当中，一切东西的譬如说品别、边际；换句话说，这是哪一样东西，属于哪一类，它这个界限范围，彼此关系等等。譬如说我们讲一切有为法，有(p163)为法呢，就是拿这个五蕴就可以统统含摄，就是这样的五类，每一类等等、等等，是这样的。乃至于十二处、十八界，那么可以说明了；不但有为法，无为法也说了，这个叫作尽所有性，尽所有性。

From here, I learnt that:
如所有性 – > 真谛
尽所有性 – > 俗谛