成唯識論述記 10.30

10.30

The Commentary states: Next is the brief answer. "Among the ten grounds" refers to the stages passed through. Cultivating the ten supreme practices refers to the causes cultivated. Severing the ten heavy obstacles refers to the dharmas eradicated as the remedies. The word "heavy" here is as explained at the beginning of Fascicle One. Realising the ten suchnesses refers to the dharmas contemplated and illuminated. Because of these four kinds of causes, the two kinds of fruits of the transformation of the basis are realised by virtue of this. Having realised the transformation of the basis, there must be stages passed through; the stages are of many kinds, but for now a small portion of the stages capable of realisation is stated—namely, the stage of cultivation—and therefore here the ten grounds are first explained at the beginning. These have no separate substantial entity; when one cultivates the ten supreme practices, severs the ten heavy obstacles, and realises the ten suchnesses, they are called the ten grounds. Having generally explained the distinct stages, since one knows that across these divisions of stages there must be cultivation and practice, next after the ten grounds the ten supreme practices are explained, which broadly expands upon the earlier [phrase] "without acquisition, inconceivable, this is supramundane wisdom." Since one cultivates these practices, there must be that which causes them, so next is explained the severing of the ten heavy obstacles, which broadly expands upon "abandoning the two kinds of coarse heaviness" in the verse. Moreover, knowing that the dharmas of the ten heavy obstacles to be severed must involve what is realised, next the ten kinds of suchness are explained. This broadly expands upon the transformation of the basis at the time of "abandoning the two kinds of coarse heaviness"; although already partially realised, it is not yet called complete, and this is the causal stage. Broadly expanding upon the preceding three lines, this constitutes the gradual awakening and entry into the two kinds of transformation of the basis, which are "realised by virtue of this." Explaining the fruit that is attained broadly expands upon the text of the fourth line of the preceding verse, directly explaining awakening and entry, which taken together forms the second section: the text of the brief answer.