[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [說無垢稱經疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1782) › 3.307 # 說無垢稱經疏 3.307 說無垢稱經疏 3.307 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.307](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1782.3.307) 贊曰：下令進益。有三：初令憶往事、次教發大心、後令得勝位。初中復二：初總明憶、後別明憶。此初文也。三摩地者，此云等持，即禪定也。以禪定者，顯是神通宿住智力，令諸苾芻隨憶住劫。亦有解云：宿世之中雖通成壞空住四劫，空劫無事，成壞乃是住之初後，唯有住劫善惡事明，故偏舉之，但名宿住，以攝成壞。今實義者，住非住劫，住於往有宿世之事，故名宿住。成壞住劫皆在其中，不須釋妨。舊云「時維摩詰即入三昧」，何甞不入，今始入也？示相今入，二亦無妨難。 > Commentary: Below, \[the text\] causes them to advance and benefit. There are three parts: first, causing them to recollect past affairs; second, teaching them to arouse the great mind; third, causing them to attain an exalted stage. Within the first, there are again two: first, an overall explanation of recollection; second, a specific explanation of recollection. This is the first text. As for samādhi, here it is called 'equipoise' (samāhita/samādhi), which is meditative stabilization (dhyāna/samādhi). Through meditative stabilization, it reveals the supernatural power of the cognitive strength of past abodes, causing all the bhikṣus to recollect as they abide in the aeon of abiding. There is also an explanation that says: although past lifetimes encompass the four aeons of formation, destruction, voidness, and abiding, the void aeon has no events, and formation and destruction are merely the beginning and end of abiding; only in the aeon of abiding are good and evil events apparent, so it is mentioned exclusively and termed merely 'past abodes' in order to subsume formation and destruction. Now, as for the real meaning: 'abode' is not the aeon of abiding, but abiding in the past events of previous lives; therefore it is named 'past abodes'. The aeons of formation, destruction, and abiding are all included within it, so there is no need to resolve an objection. The older text says, 'At that time Vimalakīrti immediately entered samādhi.' When had he ever not entered it, that he only now enters it? It manifested the appearance of now entering, so neither \[explanation\] presents any difficulty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.306](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1782.3.306) - [Next: 3.308](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1782.3.308) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1782.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1782~en-mt.3.307) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1782.3.307](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1782.3.307) · Pramāṇa