瑜伽論記 17.490

17.490

In the text of the reply below, Jing says: Although there is no feeling of suffering, there is still the coarseness of suffering. 'Coarseness' is precisely the unpliant nature and lack of peace of the faculty of suffering, which is severed only in the second dhyāna. Just as when a carbuncle is excised and the pus and blood are exhausted, there is still an unpeaceful and unpliant nature within the body, which is called coarseness. Next, he presents a counter-objection: if the faculty of suffering were already severed in the first dhyāna, there would be no difference between being associated with the second dhyāna [and the first]. Therefore, he concludes below.