大華嚴經略策 1.43

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Thirty-sixth: The names and essence of the ten patiences. Question: What are the ten patiences? I respectfully ask you to list their names and essence. Answer: 'Patience' means patient acceptance; it takes wisdom as its essence. In terms of depth and shallowness, dharmas and metaphors, ten are used to reveal perfection: First, patience with sounds, because upon hearing the sound of profound teaching one is not terrified; second, compliant patience, because one complies with principle and phenomena; third, patience with the non-arising of dharmas, because one understands that dharmas are unarisen and false thoughts do not arise; fourth, illusion-like patience, because one understands that dharmas arise from conditions and like an illusion are not real; fifth, mirage-like patience, because one understands that objects are like a mirage and cannot be grasped; sixth, dream-like patience, because one understands that the mind is like a dream, arising from thought; seventh, echo-like patience, because sounds are like an echo, hollow combinations of conditions; eighth, shadow-like patience, because the body and so forth are like shadows, appearing from karmic conditions; ninth, transformation-like patience, because they suddenly appear from nothing and have no true reality; tenth, space-like patience, because ultimately they are like empty space, ungraspable. Respectfully answered.