瑜伽論記 8.231

8.231

道中，（景云：）此正明修習入聖，前方便道初人百劫修蘊等善巧，百劫滿已於最後身伏無所有以還修惑，依第四靜慮起不淨觀乃至究竟，此人取後二果，第三亦是本性獨覺，遇佛發心多生修道，乃至能起因乘旨三善根不能入聖，但修蘊等善巧即便命終，於後生身惑伏無所有以還修斷煩惱，於五地中隨依何地入諦現觀，越證那含斷煩惱方取羅漢，或時此人住前三善根命終受身，於後身上更起忍等入諦現觀，得初果已總斷九地修惑超證羅漢，第三亦是本性獨覺，遇佛發心修方便道乃至入聖證法現觀，得初學果或證第二未能盡漏而便命終，或作七生或作一來，當無佛世依二果身不取那含越證羅漢，此後二人竝是部行，極少不減四生，極多不滿百劫，以不及初人故，此第二門意明三種獨覺初殆發心修方便道。

Regarding the path, (Jing says:) this directly explains cultivating practice to enter nobility. In the preliminary path of preparation, the first kind of person cultivates skill regarding the aggregates and so forth for a hundred kalpas; when the hundred kalpas are complete, in the final existence, having suppressed the afflictions of cultivation up to the stage of nothingness, and relying on the fourth dhyāna, gives rise to the contemplation of impurity up to culmination; this person attains the latter two fruits. The second is also an innate pratyekabuddha; encountering a Buddha, generating the mind, and cultivating the path over many lifetimes, up to being able to produce the three wholesome roots of causes, vehicles, and intentions, they are still unable to enter nobility; merely cultivating skill regarding the aggregates and so forth, their life then ends; in a subsequent rebirth, having suppressed and severed the afflictions of cultivation up to the stage of nothingness, relying on whichever among the five stages, they enter the direct realization of the truths, leaping over to realize non-returning, and only after severing afflictions attain arhatship; or at times, this person dies while abiding in the first three wholesome roots, takes rebirth, gives rise to patience and so on in that subsequent body, enters the direct realization of the truths, and having attained the first fruit, comprehensively severs the afflictions of cultivation of the nine stages and leaps over to realize arhatship. The third is also an innate pratyekabuddha; encountering a Buddha, generating the mind, cultivating the path of preparation up to entering nobility and realizing direct comprehension of dharmas, they attain the first fruit of training or realize the second, but being unable to extinguish taints, their life then ends; they either take seven births or become a once-returner, and in an era without Buddhas, relying on the body of the second fruit, they do not take non-returning but leap over to realize arhatship. These latter two persons are both "group-farers"; at minimum no less than four births, at maximum no more than a hundred kalpas, because they are inferior to the first person. The intention of this second division is to clarify that the three kinds of pratyekabuddhas initially begin by generating the mind and cultivating the path of preparation.