成唯識論了義燈 2.11

2.11

[Regarding the phrase] 'in the subsequent path of cultivation, it can only be abandoned through repeated cultivation': if explained in terms of suppressing active manifestations, in the Mahāyāna compassion and wisdom are both intensified; furthermore, there is a distinction between fearing and not fearing afflictions; and there is also the innate self-grasping of the sixth consciousness. Whether it is abandoned by seeing or abandoned by cultivation has five explanations in total, as distinguished in the Shunyao. Furthermore, in terms of arising by taking the aggregates collectively or individually, regarding the distinction of abandonment in the sequential attainment of the fruits, five explanations are also made: First, it is said that whether collective or individual, it is all abandoned at the ninth grade of [the stage of] neither-perception-nor-non-perception; if so, there is the fault of subsequently abandoning what belongs to lower stages. Second, it is said that the collective is abandoned at the ninth grade of neither-perception-nor-non-perception, while the individual is abandoned across the nine grades of each and every stage. This has two errors: if collective, the fault of subsequently abandoning lower stages; if individual, the fault that what is subsequently attained does not abandon the affliction. Third, reversing the previous second explanation, it also shares the previous error, having both faults. Fourth, it is said that the collective and individual are separately abandoned in each of the nine grades of each and every stage; if so, there is the fault that what is subsequently attained does not abandon the affliction. Fifth, it is said that the collective and individual are each abandoned at the ninth grade of their own respective stages. This explanation is correct, being free from the previous two faults; whether cultivation and abandonment are repeated or not can be known by applying this. Question: What is the meaning of the sequential śrāvaka? Answer: The various Hīnayāna schools explain this differently. Relying provisionally on the Mahāyāna to discuss the Hīnayāna fruits: it is said that there are śrāvakas whose faculties are either sharp or dull. Prior to the path of seeing, they do not suppress the afflictions of cultivation, suppressing only the afflictions of seeing; when entering the path of seeing, they abruptly abandon the afflictions of the path of seeing of the three realms, attaining the fruit of the srotāpanna. In the path of seeing, abandoning all views of self grasping the aggregates as identical or separate, they abandon them in the three-mind path of seeing; the sequence is as explained in the Shunyao. From this path of seeing of sixteen minds onward, later in the path of cultivation, they sequentially abandon the eighty-one grades of afflictions to be abandoned by cultivation across the nine stages of the three realms. According to what is appropriate, they attain the latter three fruits, which is called sequential attainment. The five explanations regarding the abandonment of [afflictions] deluded about principle or phenomena are as before, and repeated abandonment and repeated cultivation are also to be understood in accordance with the five explanations.