華嚴一乘教義分齊章 2.29

2.29

Third, regarding the differentiation of the characteristics of practice within the stages: as the Yogācārabhūmi says: "When a bodhisattva abiding in adhimukticaryā operates, what is their practice and what are their characteristics? At times, they are endowed with sharp intelligence, able to receive and hold phenomena, and capable of awakening to their principles; at another time, they cannot do so. At times, they are endowed with mindfulness; at another time, they form errors. Regarding sentient beings, they are not yet able to know the upāyas of taming; regarding their own buddha-dharmas, they also do not yet know the skillful means to bring them about in accordance with reality. When preaching the Dharma, instructing, and admonishing for others, they proceed with effort; because they proceed with effort, they cannot know in accordance with reality. At times, it is cast in vain, like shooting in the dark, sometimes hitting and sometimes missing, succeeding according to desire. At another time, having already generated the mind for great bodhi, they later retrogress and abandon it: out of internal aspiration they wish to make themselves happy, and out of deliberative consideration they wish to make others happy. At another time, upon hearing the exceedingly deep and vast teaching of the Dharma, they give rise to fright, hesitation, and doubt. Such types as these are called abiding in adhimukticaryā." In explanation: this is the characteristic of practice of the second abode among the twelve abodes; the characteristic of practice of its first abode of lineage is even more inferior, and the characteristics of practice above the bhūmis are all as explained therein.