瑜伽師地論略纂 16.35

16.35

Below, "the realms of renunciation" refers to three persons each cultivating one aspect of practice; as when the three texts below combine persons and dharmas in their exposition, there are therefore six. This realm of renunciation is precisely nirvāṇa; the six dharmas conforming to nirvāṇa are called the six cultivations. Another explanation: three persons practice six practices, and the six practices constitute the six renunciations. That is, the first person cultivates four practices, and the remaining two cultivate one practice each. Namely, cultivating loving-kindness toward hostile conduct, giving rise to compassion toward evil conduct, giving rise to sympathetic joy toward pure conduct, and giving rise to equanimity toward beneficent conduct—these are all called "concentration with sentient beings as focal object," which makes four, combined into one because they share the same focal object of sentient beings. The second, "concentration with dharmas as focal object," belongs to persons possessing the roots of good conducive to liberation. The third, "cultivating contemplation of the truths," belongs to persons possessing the roots of good conducive to decisive penetration (nirvedhabhāgīya). Because dharmas conform to the fruit of nirvāṇa, there are six. Although three persons are cited, because dharmas have three practices and the objective spheres taken as focal objects have six distinctions, there are six conforming dharmas.