瑜伽論記 5.367

5.367

Regarding the statement that it shows that the single supreme kind can serve as the cause and condition for stabilizing in nirvāṇa: Wisdom is superior among the three trainings; cutting off defilements and realizing cessation, it can serve as the cause and condition for stabilizing in nirvāṇa. Master Ji explains: The statement that it shows that the initial training in higher morality up to serving as the cause and condition for stabilization explains how stabilizing the two kinds progressively serves as a cause and condition. The initial meaning is that higher prātimokṣa morality is able to stabilize dhyāna-based morality and the mental state of the preparatory absorption of the higher training; the mental state of preparatory absorption is again able to stabilize the mental state of fundamental absorption and the higher wisdom arisen from cultivation. This is termed the initial cause and condition for stabilizing the two kinds. Because prātimokṣa morality induces and produces absorption-morality and absorption, and the initial preparatory absorption induces and produces fundamental absorption and wisdom arisen from cultivation, the training in dhyāna-morality subsumed in this intermediate state where wisdom and absorption are simultaneous can serve as the cause and condition for stabilizing the two kinds: taintless absorption and taintless wisdom. This is termed the second stabilization of the two kinds.