大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 62.30

62.30

Regarding the commentary's phrase “Third, clarifying the essential nature” and so forth: the commentary’s text has two parts: first, directly clarifying the essential nature, and later, generally indicating the doctrinal source. The former has three parts: 1. identifying the essence in terms of the conventional and the real; 2. identifying the essence in terms of the five aggregates; 3. identifying the essence in terms of all phenomena. The first has two parts: first, identifying and listing them, and later, analyzing how they form the thirty-seven factors. Here is the first. The “Chapter on Sages and Nobles” in the *Abhidharmakośa* also says: “These real entities are only ten, namely wisdom, vigor, concentration, faith, / mindfulness, joy, equanimity, pliancy, / and morality and investigation make up their essence.” The explanation states: Investigation (vitarka) is contemplation (saṃkalpa) here. Pliancy (praśrabdhi) is elimination; elimination is the name in the *Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa*, which is the “branch of awakening called pliancy” in the sūtra. *Yi* (猗) means fine, which has the sense of pliancy.