起信論疏筆削記 20.34

20.34

Under 'exhorting cultivation and [showing] benefits,' this is the dissemination section. Having presented the doctrinal principles and broadly shown cultivation, those of complete and sudden capacity will certainly rely on them to awaken and enter. Now, summarizing the preceding explanations, it exhorts them to receive and uphold it, so that through hearing, thinking, and cultivating they may attain benefits. The text fully explains the marks of benefit of the three wisdoms, and further raises the faults of disbelief and slander. Now, why does it only say 'exhorting cultivation and [showing] benefits'? It is said that by raising the profound it subsumes the shallow, and therefore it does not mention hearing and thinking; because one cultivates in response to the exhortation, doubt and slander naturally do not arise. For this reason, it only says 'exhorting cultivation and [showing] benefits.'