[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) › [首楞嚴義疏注經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799) › 7.135 # 首楞嚴義疏注經 7.135 首楞嚴義疏注經 7.135 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [7.135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.7.135) 大文第四、示地位階差者，既解通行備，內德畢充；復假密言，外助道力。內外相濟，豈徒然哉！必序階位耳。然位有因果，惑有麁細，智有明昧，斷有淺深，證有分滿，用有優劣，苟昧斯旨非真修行，墮增上慢。以我教中隨進德、修業勝劣不同，故歷五十七位漸入漸深，不同外道、天魔都無位次。若不預辯，涉進乖源，既昧斷證，錯認少得便以為足。如第四禪寡聞比丘，妄認生謗，墮阿鼻獄。事非輕小，故須明示，免招大過。 > Major Section Four, Showing the Graded Stages: having perfected understanding and completed practice, one's inner virtue is fully rounded; relying further on secret spells, external power aids one's path. When inner and outer assist each other, how could it be in vain! The stages must certainly be set forth in order. However, the stages have causes and fruits, delusions have coarse and subtle levels, wisdom has clarity and obscurity, severing has shallow and deep degrees, realization has partial and complete aspects, and functions have superior and inferior qualities. If one is ignorant of this principle, one is not a true practitioner and falls into pride of exceeding one's level. Because in our teaching, superior and inferior differ according to the advancement in virtue and cultivation of practice, one passes through fifty-seven stages, entering gradually and deepening gradually, unlike non-Buddhists and celestial maras who have no sequence of stages at all. If one does not distinguish them beforehand, progress will deviate from the source; being ignorant of severing and realization, one will mistake a small attainment for being sufficient. Like the monk of little learning in the fourth dhyāna, who mistakenly assumed realization, gave rise to slander, and fell into the Avīci Hell. This is no trivial matter; therefore, it must be clearly shown to avoid incurring great faults. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.7.134) - [Next: 7.136](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.7.136) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799~en-mt.7.135) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.7.135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1799.7.135) · Pramāṇa