華嚴一乘教義分齊章 3.12

3.12

Second, regarding abandoning delusions to attain fruits: first, abandoning the discriminated ones involves three kinds of persons. (1) If one enters the true path of seeing from being fully bound, in a single instant one abruptly abandons the discriminated afflictions of the four truths across the three realms and attains the fruit of stream-entry. (2) If a person who has partially separated from desire enters the true path of seeing, they also abandon [the delusions of] having partially separated from desire and attain the fruit of once-returning. 'Partially separated from desire' means that as an ordinary person, among the nine grades of cultivating delusions in the desire realm, one has suppressed and abandoned the first six; hence they are called 'partially separated from desire.' When entering the path of seeing, they permanently abandon what had previously been suppressed, and therefore attain that fruit. (3) If a person who has already separated from desire enters the true path of seeing, they also abandon the nine grades and attain the fruit of non-returning, as explained in the *Yogācārabhūmi*. There are three kinds of those who attain fruits upon entering the path of seeing, corresponding to the three fruits they respectively realize. Next, regarding abandoning the innate ones: the innate [afflictions] of the sixth consciousness have nine grades in each of the nine stages. Furthermore, persons who advance on the path of cultivation are of two kinds: (1) Gradual departure: abandoning completely the first six of the nine grades of the desire realm, one attains the fruit of once-returning; abandoning completely all nine grades, one attains the fruit of non-returning; abandoning completely the upper two realms, one attains the fruit of arhatship. (2) Abrupt departure: having attained the first fruit, one abruptly abandons [the afflictions of] the three realms, gradually eliminating the nine grades, and thereby attains the fruit of arhatship without any other intermediate fruit. Why? Because the nine grades of cultivating delusions of the desire realm and those of the upper two realms—altogether three kinds of nine grades—have their first grades abruptly abandoned all at once; hence it is called 'abruptly abandoning the three realms'; while sequentially considering the nine grades, they are abandoned one by one, hence it is called 'gradually eliminating.' If so, why are there gradual abandoners? Because they cannot take all phenomena of the three realms as objects simultaneously. The *Abhidharmasamuccayavyākhyā* says: 'An abrupt abandoner means that having entered the direct realization of the truths, relying on the threshold concentration, one gives rise to the supramundane path and abruptly abandons all afflictions of the three realms. Abandoning them grade by grade, only two fruits are posited, namely the fruit of stream-entry and the fruit of arhatship'—up to quoting at length the *Aṅguli-sūtra* and so forth, as explained there. The mental state of the afflictions of manas is subtle; both the gradual and abrupt persons abandon it abruptly all at once together with the delusions of the stage of neither-perception-nor-non-perception. Hence the *Yogācārabhūmi* says: 'The spontaneous afflictions associated with manas, because they are abandoned only together with [the stage of] neither-perception-nor-non-perception, are abruptly abandoned all at once, not abandoned gradually like the other delusions.'