大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 22.22

22.22

As for the commentary's "fourth, establishment," etc., this is the fourth section [of that treatise], on the absence of increase or decrease. The text of the commentary has three parts: first, clarifying that the ten neither increase nor decrease, which is the reason for establishing the ten pāramitās; second, the reasons for establishing the six; third, re-elucidating the meaning of the ten. In the first part, "countering the ten obstacles" refers to the ten kinds of avidyā such as the nature of ordinary beings, which are fully explained below in the ten stages. Here their names are briefly listed: (1) the obstacle of the nature of ordinary beings; (2) the obstacle of faulty conduct; (3) the obstacle of darkness and dullness; (4) the obstacle of active subtle afflictions; (5) the obstacle of entering parinirvāṇa in the lower vehicle; (6) the obstacle of active coarse characteristics; (7) the obstacle of active subtle characteristics; (8) the obstacle of applying effort in the signless; (9) the obstacle of not wishing to act in benefiting others; (10) the obstacle of not yet attaining mastery over all dharmas. According to the twelfth fascicle of the Abhidharma-samuccaya-vyākhyā, "the obstacle of the knowable and so forth are all countered by the pāramitās." Hence it says that they counter obstacles.