瑜伽論記 8.78

8.78

In the third part, explaining the two mindless concentrations, Master Jing discerns and explains: First, it assigns the difference between the two persons entering the two concentrations. Below 'Such two concentrations, due to two attentions...', it clarifies the difference at the time of cultivating the preliminary practices for the two concentrations: the concentration of non-perception exclusively feels revulsion toward perception, gives rise to the perception of emergence, and by gradually severing [mental activity] in cultivation is subsequently able to enter it. In the case of the concentration of cessation, one seeks upward advancement from a mind of sorrowful reflection; when the mind advances upward, seeking an upper cognitive referent, in the end nothing is found; because nothing is found, one then directs attention to thinking of temporarily pausing feeling and perception, gradually extinguishing the nine grades from coarse to subtle, extinguishing them so that they do not proceed.