華嚴一乘教義分齊章 3.19

3.19

First, provisionally assigning the two obscurations to clarify two stages: this means dividing the defilement and wisdom obscurations to clarify the two stages of inferential and direct realization. The Liang translation of the Mahāyānasaṃgraha says: 'Before the bhūmis, one gradually eliminates the afflictive obscuration; on the bhūmis, one gradually eliminates the cognitive obscuration.' It also says: 'From the ten understandings onward, one attains the supramundane pure mind.' It also says: 'Although before the bhūmis one attains the selflessness of persons, because the selflessness of phenomena is not yet pure, the selflessness of persons is also not pure.' It also says: 'The grasping at a personal self has already been eliminated in the preceding ten understandings; now one only extinguishes the grasping at a phenomenal self.' Furthermore, the Renwang jing says: 'The disposition of practice has already entered the stage of emptiness of beings, because one has attained the holy nature.' The Benye jing and the Awakening of Faith also share this explanation.