止觀輔行傳弘決 6.4

6.4

Next, directly cultivating the contemplation to investigate: in causal composition, it also first uses the four propositions as a model. From 'If from...', downward, one applies the contemplation to investigate. From 'Four propositions...', downward, severing delusions and realizing truth is concluded as the two emptinesses. 'Free from desire' is the emptiness of nature; 'free from the propositions' is the emptiness of marks. From 'Sharp faculties...', downward, concludes the difference between the two practices of sharp and dull faculties. The two practices of sharp faculties are as explained above in refuting views. A person of superior faculties, having refuted the view of existence, immediately enters truth; if not yet in resonance, they must also use the sixty-four variations. From 'Supposing one has not yet...', downward, clarifies the sixty-four variations. From 'If dull...', downward, marks continuity to show the method of contemplation, modeled on the explanation of causal composition. Next, in the two emptinesses, it says: 'the four propositions are free from desire' is the emptiness of nature; 'also free from the four' is the emptiness of marks. Previously, in refuting views, each of the three provisionalities was concluded with the two emptinesses; here, after each and every provisionality, non-arising and the two emptinesses are likewise concluded—the wording differs, but the meaning is the same. From 'The first grade...', downward, clarifies that the remaining grades also have three provisionalities, modeled on the explanation of the first grade. From 'Refuting lust...', downward, the remaining underlying defilements are also modeled in the same way. From 'The nine grades...', downward, concludes the universal refutation of non-arising.