瑜伽師地論略纂 6.35

6.35

Regarding "How does one examine? One activity […]", the fifteenth fascicle of the Abhidharmasamuccaya-bhāṣya says: it means taking one dharma and questioning each of the other dharmas reciprocally; setting aside this dharma, one further takes a second dharma and questions the other dharmas reciprocally; in this way, one should know all of them one by one. / "Conforming to the preceding phrase" means taking any two dharmas among the various dharmas and questioning them reciprocally, relying on the preceding dharma to answer what was asked; asking about the broader by means of the narrower conforms to the preceding phrase. / "Conforming to the subsequent phrase" means taking those two dharmas and questioning them back and forth, relying on the subsequent question to answer what was asked; asking about the narrower by means of the broader conforms to the subsequent phrase. Because every narrower entity must necessarily be the broader, while there are broad entities that are not the narrow. Alternatively, regarding what is questioned, one should answer with two phrases, three phrases, or four phrases; here, explaining in accordance with the broader, it speaks only of four phrases. Because entities have distinctions of narrower and broader, or because they are not identical, when the narrower and broader meanings are identical, one should answer by affirmation. What is improper is called answering without fact, and is also called answering by negation. The twenty-eight pairs of twofold gates, five pairs of threefold gates, etc., are all as explained in fascicles 65, 66, 67, 68, etc., of the Viniścayasaṃgrahaṇī. / "The four modes of practice" refers to painful with swift direct knowledge, etc. The two texts differ, and will be explained below.