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瑜伽師地論略纂 10.41

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10.41

In the treatise's distinguishing whether the various pleasures are intrinsic nature or non-intrinsic nature, where it distinguishes the fourth, pleasure of the cessation of feeling, saying: "Yet relying on ultimate truth, all feelings whatsoever are suffering; when abiding in the absorption of cessation, this ultimate suffering is temporarily calmed, and therefore it is called pleasure," here, because the absorption of cessation is uncontaminated, the preceding preparatory mind is also uncontaminated; when it says that what is reviled is suffering, it speaks remotely from the contaminated [nature] of what is reviled. Like that unconditioned [state]: in reality, during the uninterrupted path (ānantarya-mārga), the unconditioned state of the cessation of ideation and feeling is already attained; only long afterward does one attain that absorption; at the time of attaining the absorption, it traces back to what was attained during the earlier uninterrupted path, and is thus called the unconditioned state of the cessation of ideation and feeling. Here it is also like this: the absorption is uncontaminated, and the preparation is not contaminated; it derives its name remotely from what is reviled, and is named revulsion toward suffering. Although the remote mind is also contaminated goodness, by the principle of ultimate truth, it is also suffering. Moreover, equating it with the unconditioned state of ideation and feeling is the great meaning.

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