瑜伽論記 11.4

11.4

The preceding seven chapters completed the explanation of the practices of one's own stage for one's own benefit and the benefit of others; the two chapters below explain their superior progress. Therein, the initial Chapter on Offerings generally explains the practice of cultivating according to conditions for one's own benefit and the benefit of others; the subsequent Chapter on the Factors of Awakening explains the practice of internal realization. Now, in this chapter, it extensively explains making offerings to the Three Jewels, associating with good spiritual friends, and cultivating the four immeasurables; hence it is named accordingly. In the text, there is first a question and then an answer. In the answer, it first cites verses to open three headings, and then analyzes and explains them according to the headings, which forms three sections.