摩訶止觀 9.63

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若三藏云：「八色是色界法，觸欲界骨人，致諸功德起。」此依根本有漏作如此說。大乘明戒、定、慧法，悉不可盡。何以故？命朽戒謝，無作不滅。定雖伏惑，斷在不久，如蠱入身殘藏害命，即雖未死，勢不久存。慧道無失，初果七死，無漏湛然。當知戒、定是無漏法。若爾，八色之光便是界外法也。若發此相，初背捨成，位在初禪。《成論》云：「兩背捨，欲界攝；淨背捨，色界攝；四背捨，無色界攝；滅背捨，過三界。」《毘曇》云：「初二背捨，通欲界及二禪；淨背捨，在四禪；言三禪樂多，不立背捨。」復有人言：「三禪無勝處，四禪無背捨。」三家互異。今依《釋論》，初背捨、二勝處，初禪攝。既有五支，驗是初禪也。

If the Tripiṭaka states: "The eight colors are phenomena of the form realm; contacting the skeleton of the desire realm, they cause the various virtues to arise," this is explained according to the fundamental contaminated state. The Mahāyāna explains that the dharmas of morality, concentration, and wisdom can never be exhausted. Why is this? When life decays and the precepts cease, the non-manifesting [morality] is not destroyed. Although concentration suppresses defilements, their severing is before long; like a parasite entering the body, ravaging the organs and harming life, even if one is not yet dead, the vitality will not endure for long. The path of wisdom is without fault; one of the first fruit undergoes seven deaths, and the uncontaminated is serene. One should know that morality and concentration are uncontaminated dharmas. If so, the light of the eight colors is indeed a dharma beyond the realms. If this mark manifests, the first liberation is perfected, and the rank is in the first dhyāna. The Satyasiddhi-śāstra states: "Two liberations are subsumed under the desire realm; the pure liberation is subsumed under the form realm; four liberations are subsumed under the formless realm; the cessation liberation transcends the three realms." The Abhidharma states: "The first two liberations extend through the desire realm and the second dhyāna; the pure liberation is in the fourth dhyāna; it is said that because the third dhyāna has abundant pleasure, it does not establish a liberation." Yet another person says: "The third dhyāna has no stations of mastery, and the fourth dhyāna has no liberations." The three traditions differ from one another. Now, according to the Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa, the first liberation and the second station of mastery are subsumed under the first dhyāna. Since it possesses the five limbs, this verifies that it is the first dhyāna.