仁王般若經疏 3.79

3.79

From "Furthermore, the lineage of the Way" below is the third [part], explaining the upper patience. It has six clauses: first, stating the name; second, the virtue of the practices; third, contemplation and understanding; fourth, taking birth for the sake of beings; fifth, the time period of cultivation; sixth, concluding the stage. The first, stating the name, is called "lineage of the Way". The second, the virtue of the practices, the text states "abides in firm patience", which refers to the ten firm minds in the previous chapter, "Teaching and Transforming". As for the ten firm [minds], they are: first, patience in morality; second, patience in knowledge and vision; third, patience in concentration; fourth, patience in wisdom; fifth, patience in liberation; sixth, patience in the emptiness of cause and effect in the three realms; seventh, patience in wishlessness; eighth, patience in signlessness; ninth, patience in impermanence; tenth, patience in the emptiness and unproduced nature of all phenomena. The third, contemplation and understanding, the text states "contemplates that all phenomena lack the three characteristics", which means knowing that the five sensations, the three realms, and the two truths lack characteristics of self and other. As for "the nature of reality", it is the non-dual nature of aprāptitva. Because one knows that all phenomena have no existence, it says "cannot be grasped". As for the text stating "constantly enters the tenth, the supreme truth", it enumerates the previously mentioned: the five sensations make five, the three realms make eight, saṃvṛti-satya makes nine, and ultimate truth makes ten. Proceeding from the earlier contemplations to the latter, it therefore says "constantly enters the tenth, the supreme truth". As for "thought-moment after thought-moment is tranquil and extinguished", earlier it contemplated the various objective spheres as unproduced; now it explains that the mind capable of cognizing them is also tranquil and extinguished.