釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 3.4

3.4

Differentiating the Prior Expedient Means of Dhyāna-pāramitā, Part Two of Chapter Six (From this point there are two fascicles, both explaining the internal expedient means. The present single fascicle directly explains the arising of internal and external wholesome roots due to cessation. In this, the arising of wholesome roots of various dhyānas and samādhis, in terms of phenomena and principle, is explained broadly in reference to the indistinct initial state of the first dhyāna, merely showing that practitioners differ in habitual causes and roots of capacity, so that at the time of initial realization, the dhyānas that arise are different. If one speaks of what follows after the first dhyāna—the arising of the profound and subtle states of various dhyānas and samādhis in terms of phenomena and principle—all this is explained extensively in the seventh major section, Cultivation and Realization; that text has not yet circulated.)