勝鬘寶窟 3.11

3.11

Third is the section on the meaning of the terms. "Suffering" has the meaning of oppressive affliction; the sūtra calls it the "characteristic of oppression." "Origination" has the meaning of gathering and pulling along what follows; the sūtra calls it the "characteristic of being able to produce and grow." "Cessation" has the meaning of parting from the continuity of the conditioned, and also of what once existed returning to non-existence; the sūtra calls it the "characteristic of quiescence and cessation." "The path" has the meaning of being able to eliminate: elimination refers to eliminating obstacles, as the sūtra says, "eliminating obstacles"; it also has the meaning of being able to lead through, leading through to cessation, as the sūtra calls it the "characteristic of the Great Vehicle."