[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大方廣佛華嚴經疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735) › 32.5 # 大方廣佛華嚴經疏 32.5 大方廣佛華嚴經疏 32.5 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [32.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.32.5) 第二釋難所以者，彼前菩薩行事所以難者，由住微妙深義故。故論云「彼菩薩行事義住不可如是說。」偈中初二句對劣彰深、次句就勝顯妙、末句舉聞迷惑顯成難說。於中，難者是總相。云何難？難得難證故。難得有四：一微細難得，顯非聞慧境故。二難見難得，亦非思慧心眼見故。三離念難得，亦非世間修慧境故，以地智是於真修故，非地前心數分別緣修之境。四超心地難得，非唯非地前之境，亦非登地已上報生善得修道智境，謂變易所起異熟心識名為報生，生便能知無常等故名善得修道智，以非照實之智故亦不測地智。知無常等未忘心境，名為心地，以七地已還皆容出觀故。又此善得修道智即加行後得智，非根本故，所以揀之。故《瑜伽》五十五修道位中有出世斷道、世出世斷道。既通於世，故非其境。既非四心之境，是誰境耶？即佛智境。何者是智？見實義故。出生有二義：一生彼佛智故；二出離於生，是無漏故。末句云所以難說者，聞者隨聞取著悉迷惑故。 > Second, as for explaining the reason why it is difficult: the reason why those aforementioned matters of bodhisattva conduct are difficult is that they abide in subtle, wondrous, and profound meaning. Hence the Treatise states: "The meaning of the matters of those bodhisattva practices abides so that it cannot be spoken thus." > > In the verse, the first two lines contrast with the inferior to reveal the profundity; the next line approaches the superior to show its wondrousness; the final line adduces that hearing causes delusion to show that it is difficult to preach. > Therein, "difficult" is the general characteristic. Why is it difficult? Because it is difficult to obtain and difficult to realize. > Being difficult to obtain has four \[aspects\]: > 1. It is subtle and difficult to obtain, revealing that it is not the sphere of wisdom born of hearing. > 2. It is difficult to see and difficult to obtain, as it also cannot be seen by the mind's eye of wisdom born of thinking. > 3. It is free from thought and difficult to obtain, as it is also not the sphere of mundane wisdom born of cultivation. This is because the wisdom of the stages is true cultivation, not the sphere of cultivation conditioned by mental discrimination prior to the stages. > 4. It transcends the mental ground and is difficult to obtain. Not only is it not the sphere of \[the stages\] prior to the grounds, but it is also not the sphere of the wisdom of the path of cultivation (bhāvanā-mārga) attained through the maturation of birth upon entering the stages and above. That is, the ripening consciousness arisen through change is called "maturation of birth"; being able immediately upon birth to know impermanence and so forth is called "the wisdom of the path of cultivation well-attained". Because it is not wisdom that directly illumines reality, it also cannot fathom the wisdom of the stages. Knowing impermanence and so forth without having forgotten mind and object is called the "mental ground", because up through the seventh stage, exiting contemplation is still permissible. Moreover, this "wisdom of the path of cultivation well-attained" is precisely the preparatory and subsequent wisdoms, not the fundamental \[wisdom\]; hence it is excluded. Therefore, the fifty-fifth \[fascicle\] of the Yogācārabhūmi states that within the station of the path of cultivation, there is a supramundane path of abandonment and a mundane-supramundane path of abandonment. Since it extends to the mundane, it is not its sphere. > > Since it is not the sphere of these four minds, whose sphere is it? It is precisely the sphere of the Buddha's wisdom. What is this wisdom? It sees the true meaning. "Giving birth" has two meanings: first, it produces that Buddha wisdom; second, it transcends birth, being uncontaminated. The final line stating the reason why it is difficult to preach means that listeners, grasping according to what they hear, all become deluded. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 32.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.32.4) - [Next: 32.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.32.6) - [Up: 32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.32) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735~en-mt.32.5) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.32.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.32.5) · Pramāṇa