釋摩訶衍論 5.8

5.8

Having explained the gate of revealing that upon which the coarse and subtle rely, next is explained the gate of the successive stages of antidotes by original awakening. This means that the wisdom of original awakening progressively counteracts them in order, beginning with fundamental ignorance and ending with the characteristic of ceasing. However, the severance here does not take the abandonment of avidyā as its severance, because it is not a severance by means of eradication. If so, how is the meaning of severance accomplished? It means that the mind of affliction is severed and eradicated so that it does not arise; this is called the successive order of the path of antidotes by original awakening, just as the root text says: "If the cause ceases, then the conditions cease. Because the cause ceases, the non-corresponding mind ceases; because the conditions cease, the corresponding mind ceases."