起信論疏筆削記 19.32

19.32

Under the first, the commentary says: "Obstacles" means obstructing those who have entered the Path and hindering them so as to cause them to regress. Duitig demons and essences are discussed below. "Three kinds" refers to māras, ghosts, and spirits. First are the five sense-objects disagreeable to the feelings, which appear either very large or very small, terrifying in ten thousand ways, thereby causing one to lose one's resolve. Second are the five sense-objects agreeable to the feelings, manifesting a woman to a man or a man to a woman, causing them to generate defilement. Third are the five sense-objects that are neutral; excluding the former two, it is this state. Because the three kinds—māras, ghosts, and spirits—can each manifest disagreeable, agreeable, and neutral events.