法界次第初門 2.209

2.209

次三無漏根而辯十一智者，以三根能生十一智故。所以者何？未知欲知根生法智、比智；知根生苦智、集智、滅智、道智及他心智、世智；知已根生盡智、無生智及如實智。是以次三根而辯十一智也。通名智者，決定了知，故名為智。若發此十一智時，各齊位照了分明，故通名為智也。

The eleven cognitions are explained next after the three untainted faculties because the three faculties can generate the eleven cognitions. Why is this? The faculty of coming to know what is not yet known generates the cognition of phenomena and inferential cognition; the faculty of knowing generates the cognitions of suffering, the origin, cessation, and the path, as well as the cognition of the minds of others and conventional cognition; the faculty of having known generates the cognitions of exhaustion, non-arising, and reality as it is. Therefore, the eleven cognitions are explained next after the three faculties. They are collectively called 'cognitions' because they understand decisively; thus they are called 'cognitions.' When these eleven cognitions are produced, each clearly and distinctly illuminates in accord with its level; hence they are collectively called 'cognitions.'