瑜伽師地論略纂 5.55

5.55

In the treatise's explanation of the names, it only explains the shared name. Regarding "The first seven liberations generate resolute intention regarding that from which one has already been liberated": the phenomena contemplated by the seven must be cultivated only after one has become free from the defilement of the affliction-obstacles of that bhūmi, which is called 'already liberated'. Now one contemplates those objects in order to eliminate the obstacles to concentration and generate the qualities of supernormal powers, thereby generating resolute intention; hence they are named 'liberation'. Regarding "The eighth liberation turns away from perception and feeling": although the prior, remote uninterrupted path extinguished the obstacle of perception and feeling, only now does it attain the name 'liberation'. When directly giving rise to the liberation, it is designated with the name 'liberation' simply by temporarily turning away from perception and feeling; it is not that only at that time does it first become liberated from the obstacles to concentration, because it had already become free from them earlier.