大般涅槃經集解 69.14

69.14

Sengliang comments: 'That is, forms and sounds': he first contemplates the causes of desire. Causes have internal and external: forms and so forth are external, and inverted perceptions are internal. 'Then it generates feeling': that is desire. Desire has no separate dharma: when inverted perceptions are numerous, they constitute desire; pleasure is called feeling. When perceptions arise after the ten unwholesome deeds, they are called the ten unwholesome perceptions. 'Because of bad parents': killing and harming are the retribution of action, and hell is the retribution of rebirth. Baoliang comments: Next, thirdly, he contemplates desire. Desire is the five dusts (sense objects); he clarifies that the five dusts are not themselves desire, but can generate desire; speaking of the fruit within the cause, they are therefore called desire. The reason for contemplating them: because of the five dusts, consciousness arises; through attachment to consciousness, perception arises; because of perception, feeling arises; because of feeling, craving and desire within the aggregate of mental formations arise. Thus, from the five dusts to feeling, all are the causes of desire. However, because consciousness has few faults, it is not made into a separate gateway for contemplation.