大方廣佛華嚴經疏 53.4

53.4

Under the fourth [heading], the five sections beginning with "the path of leaving behind the raw" (niyāmāvakrānti) explain the practice in the Fourth Stage. This is divided into three parts: first, this section explains the causes for the purification, antidotes, and cultivation's increase; the next section explains their purification; the last three sections explain the antidotes and the increase of cultivation. Now, concerning the first: the first three stages are provisionally likened to the worldly, where afflictions such as wrong views still exist, just like raw food in the stomach. The Fourth Stage is provisionally likened to the supramundane; its purified antidotes are capable of leaving behind that "rawness"—that is, leaving behind conditioned practices, attaining non-arising, and revealing practice that is fully ripened and free from raw harshness, as explained in detail in the *Vibhāṣā*. Here, it is the cause of that purified antidote, and hence is named the "path." The *Daśabhūmika-sūtra* has ten illumination-doors of the Dharma, the first of which is contemplating sentient beings; here, it only expands on this single clause, the rest being abbreviated. When the conclusion states "not mixed with the Two Vehicles," it is because one cultivates by practicing pairs across the ten clauses, unlike the Two Vehicles' leaving behind the raw upon the path of seeing. Second, the definitive dharmas explain its purification. Above explained the ability to leave behind; here reveals what is attained, since one attains the supramundane definitive dharmas. Hence that text says, "Attaining those internal dharmas, one is born into the family of the Tathāgata." Among the ten, the first five pertain to one's own level (svabhūmi), and the latter five to superior progress (viśeṣa-mārga).