俱舍論頌疏論本 10.30

10.30

樂等順三受者，為約三受攝一切觸，總為三觸：一、與樂受相應，名順樂受觸；二、與苦受相應，名順苦受觸；三、與捨受相應，名順不苦不樂受觸。問：「何故此觸名為順受？」答：「論有三釋：一云：『此三能引樂等三受故。』解云：此則能引順所引也。二云：『或是樂等受所領故。』解云：受領於觸，觸名順受，此約所領順能領也。三云：『或能為受行相依故。』解云：受之行相依觸而生，名為順受，此據所依順能依也。又論云：『如何觸為受所領行相依（問第二第三釋也）？行相極似觸，依觸而生故（答也）。』解云：行相極似觸者，答觸是受所領也，如世子孫媚好似父，名能領父。受似觸相，說領觸也。依觸而生故者，明觸受所依也。」如是合成十六種觸也，初明六觸，次明二觸，又說明等三觸，其次愛恚二觸，後說順樂等三觸，故成十六。

Regarding "agreeable and so forth conform to the three feelings": subsuming all contacts under the three feelings, there are three contacts in total: first, associated with pleasant feeling, called contact conforming to pleasant feeling; second, associated with painful feeling, called contact conforming to painful feeling; third, associated with neutral feeling, called contact conforming to neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. Question: "Why are these contacts called 'conforming to feeling'?" Answer: "The treatise offers three explanations. The first says: 'Because these three are able to induce the three feelings of pleasure and so forth.' Explanation: this means that the inducer conforms to what is induced. The second says: 'Or because they are experienced by feelings such as pleasure.' Explanation: feeling experiences contact, so contact is called conforming to feeling; this refers to the experienced conforming to the experiencer. The third says: 'Or because they can serve as the basis for the mental aspect (ākāra) of feeling.' Explanation: the mental aspect of feeling arises in reliance on contact, so it is called conforming to feeling; this is based on the support conforming to the supported. Furthermore, the treatise says: 'How is contact that which is experienced by feeling and the basis for its mental aspect?' (questioning the second and third explanations). 'Because its mental aspect closely resembles contact, and arises in reliance on contact' (the answer). Explanation: 'its mental aspect closely resembles contact' answers how contact is experienced by feeling; just as in the worldly realm a child or grandchild who handsomely resembles the father is said to take after the father, feeling resembles the characteristics of contact, which is called experiencing contact. 'Arising in reliance on contact' clarifies that contact is the support of feeling." Thus, combined, there are sixteen kinds of contact: first explaining the six contacts, next explaining two contacts, again explaining three contacts such as luminous, next the two contacts of attachment and aversion, and finally three contacts conforming to pleasure and so forth; thus making sixteen.