大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 70.7

70.7

Regarding the Commentary from 'It states, forming six' downward: second, the explanation based on the treatise. In the initial [pair], defilement and cure, effort, lesser vows, and māra activities are all karmic defilements. The mind of effort in the seventh stage is called effortful practice; the mind delighting in emptiness in the sixth stage is called lesser vehicle vows; the mind attached to existence in the first five stages is called various māra activities. Alternatively, the practice generated in the seventh stage is called effortful practice; the mind of the two vehicles is called lesser vehicle vows; the mind of ordinary beings is called various māra activities. Now, departing from effort cures effortful practice, and by far transcending the fault of intervals between existence and non-existence, it cures lesser vows and māra activities; hence it is named 'Immovable.' This one is general, and so all sūtras and treatises establish this name. Regarding the Commentary's phrase 'Third, there are two phrases on the purity of initiating practice': this refers to departing from faults in initiating and cultivating during superior progress. The former phrase means that at the time of initiating practice, one departs from the fault of effort, which is called purity of initiation. The latter phrase means that at the time of cultivating practice, one departs from the fault of non-accomplishment, which is called purity of practice, because it is accomplished at will. Regarding 'The treatise's sūtra text names it the prince': the sūtra states: 'It is named the stage of the prince, because of departing from the faults of household life.' Master Yuan explained: 'Just as a worldly prince is born into a royal family and is free from the faults of farming and so forth, so too the bodhisattva is born into the Buddha's family and is free from the fault of effort in cultivation.' Explanation: looking at the intent of the sūtra, it solely takes the departure from faults.