仁王般若經疏 2.59

2.59

From "Equal Contemplation" down, three lines of six phrases praise the eighth ground, having six distinctions. The first phrase clarifies the king of the second dhyāna, which clarifies the person who benefits others. The bodhisattva of the eighth ground forgets effort and brings characteristics to rest, equally contemplating the two truths and comprehensively cultivating myriad practices; entering the water of the great stream of Dharma, he contemplates emptiness and existence alike, hence "Equal Contemplation." The second phrase clarifies that from the eighth ground upward one attains the great Dharma body, which is termed the body that benefits others. The third phrase, "enters a hundred Gaṅgā-[sands] lands," is the practice of benefiting others. The fourth phrase, "completely illuminating... Gaṅgā-[sands of] kalpas," clarifies the wisdom that benefits others. In the fifth phrase, from the eighth ground upward one attains reflexive wisdom: suffering and pleasure are both empty; yet worldly people mostly take suffering as real and pleasure as empty, whereas now this bodhisattva of the eighth ground contemplates emptiness and reality as equal, exhausting the inexhaustible source. Another explanation: reflecting back that the nature of the feeling of pleasure is suffering is called "empty," and that beginningless [time] is entirely suffering is called the "inexhaustible source." In the sixth phrase, the supreme ultimate truth of the Middle Way is immutable; hence it says "always tranquil."