釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 3.89

3.89

What has been explained here regarding the signs of the fifteen gates of dhyāna arising due to calming (śamatha) are all discriminated approximately according to the initial realms of the first dhyāna. Now, the realized signs of all dhyānas and concentrations cannot be fully conveyed in writing. This is merely to indicate that because practitioners' past habituated causes differ, the dhyānas that arise are not identical. If one wishes to discuss fully the vast, profound, and far-reaching signs of the principles and phenomena of the fifteen gates of dhyāna, they will be distinguished to some small extent from beginning to end below in the seventh major section explaining cultivation and realization.