瑜伽論記 9.308

9.308

三、明所治障，前之五通具有性事二障，性者謂欲界等下地煩惱及隨煩惱障上定地五通體性不得成就名為性障，雖除性障成就五通，仍有通擁本中無知不能現用名為事障，事障即是所知障，異熟生類收除此事障通用方成，漏盡通但有性障，性障若除即得漏盡，二乘之人具斷二障而起於通，異生外道及地前菩薩伏性事障得起五通，十地菩薩但伏性障斷於事障即得起通，以彼事即所知障攝證真如理斷所知障即起通用，性障即是修斷煩惱，七地以來上中二品麁惑雖伏細惑猶暫得行，八地以上細者方伏金剛頓斷，故知十地菩薩五通性障但伏不斷，諸佛六通任運起用更不除障，以於金剛心已頓斷六通一切障。

3. Explaining the hindrances to be remedied: the first five supernormal knowledges fully possess two hindrances, essential and operational. "Essential" refers to the afflictions and secondary afflictions of lower planes, such as the desire realm, obstructing the essential nature of the five supernormal knowledges belonging to the higher meditative planes so that they cannot be accomplished; this is called the essential hindrance. Although the essential hindrance is removed and the five supernormal knowledges are accomplished, there still remains the blockage of fundamental ignorance preventing their active manifestation; this is called the operational hindrance. The operational hindrance is none other than the cognitive hindrance, subsumed under the category of karmic maturation; once this operational hindrance is removed, the function of supernormal knowledge is realized. The supernormal knowledge of the exhaustion of taints has only the essential hindrance; if the essential hindrance is removed, one immediately attains the exhaustion of taints. Persons of the two vehicles sever both hindrances completely before giving rise to the supernormal knowledges. Ordinary beings, heterodox practitioners, and bodhisattvas before the stages suppress the essential and operational hindrances to give rise to the five supernormal knowledges. Bodhisattvas on the ten stages merely suppress the essential hindrance and sever the operational hindrance to give rise to the supernormal knowledges; because that operational [hindrance] is subsumed under the cognitive hindrance, upon realizing the principle of tathatā and severing the cognitive hindrance, they immediately give rise to the functions of the supernormal knowledges. The essential hindrance consists of the afflictions severed through cultivation. Up to the seventh stage, although coarse defilements of the upper and middle grades are suppressed, subtle defilements can still temporarily operate; only on the eighth stage and above are subtle ones suppressed, and they are severed all at once at the vajropama-samādhi. Therefore we know that for bodhisattvas on the ten stages, the essential hindrances to the five supernormal knowledges are merely suppressed and not severed. The Buddhas' six supernormal knowledges operate spontaneously without further eliminating hindrances, because at the vajropama-mind all hindrances to the six supernormal knowledges have already been severed all at once.