瑜伽論記 10.424

10.424

In the former, the statement 'being able to correctly contemplate all phenomena' clarifies the beginning of cultivating contemplation. 'Through good observation, etc.' clarifies the final accomplishment of cultivating contemplation. Below, setting forth the essence of the objects: if based on the older treatise, the numbers such as one and two are not posited; therefore, the ancient masters opened the Three Jewels into three, combined cause and effect into one, and did not count all objects of knowledge and proper domains of practice as a separate number to make eight. Now these eight numbers are as extensively explained above in the Chapter on the Gotra of Powers, but the sequence of numbers listed there differs slightly from this: in that section, the second is power and the third is ultimate truth; here, power is the third and ultimate truth is the second; the rest of the text can be understood accordingly.