新華嚴經論 8.53

8.53

The third assembly ascends to the summit of Mount Sumeru to the palace of Śakra: this clarifies that from the explanation of the stages of the ten faiths in the Hall of Universal Light, faith is initially aroused upon that ground. Now, in Śakra's heavenly palace, it indicates the superiority of the Dharma practices in the stages of advancement. In this heaven he explains the gateway of the ten abodes, clarifying that the stages of the ten abodes initially correspond with reality, the mind merges with emptiness, and one partly attains the function of wisdom on one's own, possessing mastery like a deva. It is like ascending a high mountain where the body merges with the sky: using the place to symbolize the superiority of the Dharma stage does not necessarily require being born in heaven. It clarifies that the signless function of wisdom is sovereign like a deva. Furthermore, it clarifies that the body of the mountain rises high above the mundane in the worldly realm, symbolizing that in the initial mind of the ten abodes, meditative concentration is motionless like a mountain, and signless wondrous wisdom transcends the mundane, being directly present and able to destroy obstacles.