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彰所知論 2.35

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2.35

As for the three samādhis, they are emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness. The emptiness samādhi is the absorption associated with the two aspects of emptiness and non-self. The signless samādhi is the absorption associated with the four aspects of the truth of cessation. Nirvāṇa is signless because it is free from the ten signs; hence it is called signless. The meditative absorption capable of taking that as its object receives the name 'signless'. The wishless samādhi is the absorption associated with the ten aspects of the remaining [three] truths. Because [the conditioned] is impermanent, and the causes of suffering are to be reviled; and because the path is like a raft that must surely be abandoned, the meditative absorption capable of taking those as its object receives the name 'wishless', both being on account of transcending what is presently encountered. Because these qualities are shared by both-parts-liberated arhats, pratyekabuddhas, and Tathāgatas, they are called shared qualities. Those liberated by wisdom lack the three absorptions and the four immeasurables.

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