觀心論疏 5.5

5.5

Question: Why are the unhindered and the hindered discerned entirely in terms of the mind? Answer: Those above who contemplate the mind without awakening do so because they do not recognize the unhindered and the hindered, the wrong and the correct, and the obstacles and difficulties within the mind. All Dharma gates, up to the ten chapters, are discussed in terms of the mind; why would it be limited to the single chapter on the unhindered and the hindered? Discussing them in terms of other things would be remote; learners would then seek outside, not according with the treatise's intent.