華嚴五十要問答 2.7

2.7

Question: In the Chapter on Samantabhadra, based on Samantabhadra's teaching being extremely profound, vast, and great, why does the text at first explain that a single [moment of] anger constitutes a hundred obstacles and so forth? Answer: According to the Hīnayāna teaching, one affliction is one obstacle in one lifetime; by one patience and one knowledge, through one severance one obtains one cessation. According to the triyāna teaching, the initial teaching is identical in terminology to the preceding, but differs in depth of meaning. If based on the final teaching of the triyāna, one affliction is one obstacle across the three times; by one patience and one knowledge that are neither beginning, middle, nor end, through severance one obtains cessation across the three times. Based on the Ekayāna teaching, one affliction is many obstacles across many times; one number [of severances] is many numbers of patiences, and many numbers [of severances] are one number of patiences; one number [of severances] is many numbers of knowledges, and many numbers [of severances] are one number of knowledges; one severance is neither beginning, middle, nor end, obtaining cessation in the nine times and cessation that is non-temporal. Now, that the Chapter on Samantabhadra first explains the obstacle of anger and so forth is stated based on the head [of the sequence], intending by analogy to reveal Samantabhadra's vast and great teachings of understanding and practice.