觀心論疏 2.25

2.25

The treatise says: "[The verse] asks: Contemplating the spontaneously arising mind, / How is it the three vehicles? / Clumsy crossing over severs views and inclinations, / Escaping the burning house of the three realms." The preceding three verses clarified the failure to understand the spontaneously arising mind in a single thought-moment and the failure to comprehend the principle of the four inexpressibles, thus giving rise to the two delusions of views and inclinations, as explained above. From here there are four verses, which form the third [section], clarifying that the principle has shallow and profound levels. If one awakens to the spontaneously arising mind in a single thought-moment and comprehends the principle of the four inexpressibles, yet because understanding has great and small, skillful and clumsy, and awakening has gradual and sudden, shallow and profound, this leads to the distinction of the four teachings, which constitutes the four verses.