瑜伽師地論略纂 9.11

9.11

Regarding the śāstra's third round of explaining the manaskāras, which states: "Furthermore, the manaskāra of understanding the characteristics, with respect to what is to be severed, and so forth, up to the manaskāra of resolute conviction, properly generates praxis in order to sever and to attain": since the twenty-eighth [fascicle] states that the first two manaskāras are both the path of praxis, why does the present [text] speak only of resolute conviction as the proper praxis? The answer is: here it speaks in terms of the superior place, the place adjacent to the unobstructed path, and the place uninterrupted by hearing and reflection; therefore it speaks only of resolute conviction as the proper praxis. The earlier twenty-eighth [fascicle] discussed it according to the actual state of affairs, [wherein] understanding the characteristics should also be praxis. Another explanation is: this "properly generating praxis" does not necessarily exclude understanding the characteristics from being the path of praxis; because resolute conviction is superior in being adjacent [to the unobstructed path], it is definitively said to "properly generate praxis." It provisionally speaks of resolute conviction as the proper path of praxis without precluding understanding the characteristics, so in fact there is no contradiction, as harmonized in the Notes on the Abhidharma.