說無垢稱經疏 4.29

4.29

Commentary: Here there are three phrases. The interpretation according to the principle of emptiness states: 'Grasping' has the meaning of conceptual clinging and grasping. 'Disturbance' means agitation. 'Distraction' means mental unrest. 'Taming' means subduing. 'Guarding' means protecting in accordance. For one who renounces for the sake of the unconditioned and emptiness, there is no clinging or grasping, one is free from affliction, one subdues one's own mind, and one puts to rest and protects the intentions of others. For one who renounces for the sake of conditioned signs, one cannot be like this. The interpretation according to proper reason states: First, 'free from all grasping'. 'Grasping' has the meaning of craving and clinging; its substance consists precisely of the four graspings: 1. desire-grasping, craving directed toward the five sensory fields; 2. view-grasping, grasping onto various views; 3. precept-grasping, grasping onto various precepts; 4. self-doctrine grasping, grasping onto a distinct, real self. There is no substance of a self, there is only a name, hence it is called 'self-doctrine grasping'. The latter three have wisdom as their substance, each taking its own view as its nature according to its name. Here, being free from all grasping is the path of subduing; severing all grasping is the path of abandoning delusions. Second, 'free from disturbance and distraction'. Regarding disturbance and distraction: 'disturbance' has the meaning of scattering; 'distraction' has the meaning of turbulence, which is the substance of distraction—the mind racing among sensory fields, turbulent and unsettled; hence it is called 'disturbance and distraction'. Or it refers to the six distractions: 1. essential nature, 2. signs, 3. coarse heaviness, 4. internal, 5. external, 6. mental application. Third, 'taming one's own mind and guarding the minds of others'. One is skillfully able to tame and subdue the afflictions of one's own mind, and one protects the minds of others so as not to let distress arise, thus bringing them to maturity.