四教義 9.7
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9.7
Third, regarding correlating the stages according to the five practices clarified in the Nirvāṇa Sūtra: the initial noble practice of morality, noble practice of concentration, and noble practice of wisdom regarding the four truths of arising and ceasing correspond to the stages of the ten faiths; next, the noble practice of the four true truths of non-arising corresponds to the stages of the ten abodes; next, the four noble truths of the immeasurable correspond to the stages of the ten practices; next, clarifying the cultivation of the one real truth and the four noble truths of non-action corresponds to the stages of the ten dedications of merit; next, if one activates the real to see the one real truth and realizes the four noble truths of non-action, this is the stage of fulfilling the noble practices, attaining the twenty-five samādhis in the fearless stage, capable of destroying the twenty-five states of existence, called the Joyous Stage; that the five practices are complete and the ten merits are expounded probably represents the merits of the ten stages abiding in great nirvāṇa; beyond this, the clarification of abiding in great nirvāṇa is the stage of wondrous enlightenment.
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