觀心論疏 1.13

1.13

The verse says: / 'Each lacks provisions for future lives; / losing the three benefits brings suffering. / The Great Dharma is about to collapse; / how lamentable to witness this!' / This single verse clarifies that internally lacking the wholesome capacity, externally there is no noble response, and the sprout of the Dharma seed withers; this is losing the joy of the three benefits of present and future nirvāṇa. Not only do they lose the joy of the three benefits, but they further incur the suffering of the three destinies. In this case, with no one to propagate the Dharma, it day by day declines and falls into ruin. How bitter and lamentable! The half-line concluding it states: 'For these causes and conditions, / one must compose the Treatise on Contemplating the Mind.'