大乘入道次第 1.40

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Furthermore, in this ground, they also specifically cultivate the ten dharmic practices. Thus the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra states: "Bodhisattvas first, in the adhimukticaryā-bhūmi, rely upon the ten dharmic practices and cultivate them with extreme excellence." These two stages of provisioning and preparatory application are named the adhimukticaryā-bhūmi. Because they have not yet realized understanding, but have only faithful understanding, it is called adhimukti (faithful resolution). As for the ten dharmic practices, according to the Xianyang shengjiao lun: "1. Transcribing: toward the Bodhisattva Piṭaka, whether much or little, honoring and revering it, meaning transcribing it oneself or having others transcribe it. 2. Making offerings: with inferior or superior offering articles, meaning making offerings oneself or taking one's own goods to have others make offerings. 3. Bestowing upon others: having transcribed it oneself, out of pity for others, bestowing it upon them. 4. Attentively listening: when others expound or recite it, doing so out of reverent veneration. 5. Reading it oneself: giving rise to pure faith and understanding, with a respectful and solemn mind. 6. Reciting aloud: having received it from a master, chanting and reciting it. 7. Receiving and holding: having recited it, in order to firmly uphold it, reviewing and practicing it with vast and wondrous wisdom. 8. Expounding: out of compassion for others, transmitting it to them, expounding it according to its extensive or abridged form. 9. Contemplating: dwelling alone in seclusion and tranquility, examining and inquiring into it with extreme excellence. 10. Cultivating: in accordance with what has been contemplated, cultivating śamatha, vipaśyanā, and so forth."