釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 3.168

3.168

Answer: Now, when explaining the habituated causes for the manifestation of the various dhyānas and samādhis, the meaning and intention are different: here, it specifically refers to wholesome [states] experienced in the past, lost midway, and now manifested again through cessation, so as to explain wholesome manifestation from habituated causes. The genuine undefiledness manifested in the four fruits entirely lacks the cause of having been experienced in a past life, lost midway, and now remanifested through cultivating cessation—how could they be analogous? If speaking generally, the genuine undefiled understanding of the first grade of mind serves as the homogeneous cause for the undefiledness of the second grade of mind, and likewise up to the ninth grade. If explaining wholesome habituated causes in this sense, then the undefiledness manifested in all four fruits would be called wholesome manifestation from habituated causes. But now, since we are not explaining wholesome manifestation from habituated causes in this sense, we say that what is manifested in the four fruits is not the manifestation of wholesome roots from habituated causes.