觀彌勒上生兜率天經贊 2.37

2.37

The commentary says: Elaborating further on the previous adornments, there are four points: first, elaborating on the tenth, the musical sounds expounding the Dharma; second, elaborating on the sixth, the rows of trees of the seven jewels; third, elaborating on the fourth, the light that destroys darkness; fourth, elaborating on the second, the height and thickness of the enclosing walls. This first part elaborates on the musical sounds. There are five kinds of non-retrogression: first, those who do not yet have faith come to have faith, because faith does not retrogress; second, those who are not yet fixed become fixed, because the stage does not retrogress; third, those who have not yet attained attain, because realization does not retrogress; fourth, those who have not yet cultivated cultivate, because practice does not retrogress; fifth, for those who have already severed [defilements], afflictions do not arise, because severance does not retrogress. These are the practices of the wheel of the Dharma of the stage of non-retrogression common to the three vehicles. The wheel of the Dharma is that which expresses, and the practice is that which is expressed. The true wheel of the Dharma is solely the practice that is expressed, which crushes and moves, because the practice is all-pervading and complete. Practice is itself the wheel of the Dharma. Now it says 'the practices of the wheel of the Dharma'; thus we know that the teaching is called the wheel of the Dharma, which expounds what is cultivated in those five stages, because the audience is endowed with the three vehicles. The wheel of the Dharma has five aspects: first, its intrinsic nature; second, its retinue; third, its cause; fourth, its object; fifth, its fruit, as explained in the relevant chapter. Now in explaining practice, it subsumes the first three, or it subsumes all of them.