華嚴經探玄記 11.71

11.71

Ninth, in "abstaining from ill-will", within the sūtra text of the treatise there are three: 1. gathering the antidotes; 2. abandoning obstacles; 3. generating practice. This sūtra omits the latter two. Regarding gathering the antidotes, the treatise has six minds for five kinds of sentient beings. Here there are only four minds: 1. generating kindness toward enemies; 2. generating compassion toward the poor and suffering; 3. generating a mind of soothing and benefiting toward sentient beings attached to pleasure, moistening them with the Dharma to cause them to leave negligence; 4. generating an affectionate mind toward sentient beings who have aroused the bodhicitta and are fatigued, in order to benefit them. Furthermore, the treatise states that this mind of loving-kindness and the others have six kinds of obstacles, clarifying that the preceding six minds have these six obstacles. That this is "without distinct differentiation" means that it is not that two or three obstacles together obstruct one antidote, nor that two or three antidotes together counter one obstacle; it cannot be differentiated like that, and hence is called "without distinct differentiation". Nor is it a one-to-one separate correspondence, but merely general obstacles and general antidotes. Among the six: 1. in terms of enemies flourishing, it is the power of anger; 2. in terms of relatives not flourishing, etc., it is the power of resentment; 3. in terms of one's own wholesome qualities not being generated, etc., it is the power of defilement; 4. in terms of unwholesome qualities flourishing, it is the power of harm; 5. in terms of another's undesirable matters, etc., it is the power of false conceptualization; 6. in terms of desirable matters not arising, etc., it is the power of jealousy. Hence it is said that they are stated in the sequence of the textual sentences. "The root of immeasurable unwholesome conduct" explains the word "etc." The rest can be known as in the treatise.