仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏 2.524

2.524

The commentary explains: As for 'foolish commoners', formerly called 'ignorant ordinary persons' or 'childlike ordinary persons', the present text is abbreviated and merely says 'foolish commoners', meaning foolish and lacking wisdom. As for 'defiled consciousness', because of beginningless dust, defilement, and false discrimination, it is called defiled consciousness. As for 'contaminated by and attached to what is false and vain', unable to contemplate the aggregates, sense fields, and realms, just as when a robe is wet, dust and dirt stick to it, it is called 'contaminated and attached'; failing to understand reality, it is called 'false and vain'. As for 'bound by marks', they are bound by the characteristics of false and vain dharmas. As the nineteenth fascicle of the Prakaraṇāryavācā says: 'The bondage of marks binds sentient beings, and so too does the bondage of crude heaviness. Only by skillfully cultivating calm and insight together can one be liberated from both.' Because they do not understand that the objective sphere is merely their own mind, seeing themselves confined by marks, it is called 'the bondage of marks'. Hereafter, the third part concludes by showing correct contemplation.