成唯識論演祕 7.481

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According to the Yogācārabhūmi, Fascicle 43: Discernment is of two kinds: first, worldly; second, transworldly. Briefly stated, these two further have three kinds: First, when a bodhisattva is about to awaken to the ineffable selflessness of dharmas or to the true reality, or when they are rightly awakening to the true reality, or after they have awakened to the true reality, all their wonderful discernment is supremely tranquil, clearly manifests before them, is devoid of conceptual proliferation, and is free from all prapañca; they cultivate equanimity toward all dharmas, enter into the great universal characteristic, completely reach the limit of all that is to be known, depart from the two extremes, and smoothly enter into the Middle Way. This is called the bodhisattva's discernment that conformably awakens to and penetrates the reality of all that is to be known. Second, when a bodhisattva is decisively skillful in the five fields of knowledge and in the three aggregates—namely, they truly know the aggregate of dharmas that leads to benefit, the aggregate of dharmas that leads to non-benefit, and the aggregate of dharmas that leads to neither-benefit-nor-non-benefit; all the wonderful discernment regarding these eight stations is skillfully gathered, enabling them to quickly fulfill the vast provisions and quickly realize awakening—this is called the bodhisattva's discernment that is decisively skillful in the five fields of knowledge and in the three aggregates. Third, the discernment that accomplishes the welfare of all sentient beings is of eleven kinds, as has already been fully detailed above.