般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊 2.5

2.5

The merits abandoned, cultivated, and realized in each of these vihāras are not absent in the other vihāras, but are established separately according to their respective full perfection. The adhimukticaryā-vihāra tends toward signless practice; what it performs is narrow, deficient, and indeterminate. The subsequent six vihāras attain signless practice; what they perform is vast, non-deficient, and determinate. The final four vihāras fully realize purity, partake of the fruits of practice, and their deeds are immeasurable. In the adhimukticaryā-vihāra, at the sixth mind of faith and so forth, faith arises without retrogression and one does not sever roots of goodness; at the seventh mind of the ten abidings, one does not regress in one's position and does not become of the two vehicles; reaching the pramuditā-vihāra, one does not regress from what has been realized and never forgets it; reaching the effortless signless vihāra, one does not regress in practice, naturally making progress in all cultivation seeking the wisdom of all modes, extensively performing benefit and joy; therefore, one retains afflictions to assist one's vows in taking birth, and for this reason the characteristics of cutting off afflictions are not spoken of here.