大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 71.5

71.5

Regarding the commentary's phrase “The faculties and other gates all become eighty thousand,” because there are afflictions, there is karma; afflictions have gradations, and karma is likewise. Afflictions exist depending on faculties, and their superior and inferior natures have differences. Understandings have depths and shallows. Desires have lightness and heaviness. Each constitutes eighty thousand. Regarding “Reversing this then manifests...”: below, it clarifies that the antidotes that can cure each and every affliction and so forth all reach the other shore. To exhaust principle and fully realize the nature is precisely the eighty-four thousand gates of transcendence. If one is tranquil toward delusions and unmoving with respect to afflictions and so forth, that is precisely the eighty-four thousand samādhis. If one is unhindered by each and every affliction and so forth, that is the eighty-four thousand liberations.