起信論疏筆削記 17.5

17.5

Second, detailed explanation. The treatise: "Because defilements, etc.": Sentient beings from beginningless time have turned away from enlightenment and united with dust, giving rise to boundless defilements and stained dharmas such as greed and anger upon all dharmas like sights and sounds. Now, having awakened to and recognized these faults and perils, they ought to raise counteractions. Since the defilements to be counteracted are many, could the good qualities that counteract them be singular? It is like diseases being many, for which medicines cannot be of a single kind; hence, one cultivates all practices. The Diamond Sūtra also says: "Cultivating all good dharmas through selflessness and the absence of a person, one then attains anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi," and so forth.