釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 6.46

6.46

Regarding "cultivated well": within the compassion absorption, not only does one perceive dear persons experiencing suffering and feel deep pity, but extending to the nine kinds of neutral and hostile persons, and all those experiencing suffering in the ten directions and five destinies, one pities, rescues, and protects them, the mind being equal; hence it is called cultivated well. Furthermore, if seeing those who experience suffering one generates pity, but toward those who experience happiness or those who experience neither suffering nor happiness one does not feel pity, it is not called cultivated well; if seeing all three kinds of persons as being in suffering, pitying them without duality, it is called cultivated well. Furthermore, seeing differences in the suffering experienced by sentient beings of the five destinies is called not cultivated well; if seeing the experience of suffering as not different, pitying equally, it is called cultivated well. It can also be said: if seeing the suffering experienced by sentient beings of the five destinies as only one kind, it is called not cultivated well; if one is able to discern the differences and disparities in the suffering experienced by sentient beings of the five destinies, it is called cultivated well. Such is a brief explanation of the characteristics of being cultivated well.