宗鏡錄 71.19

71.19

答。古釋有四種。夫增上緣者。即簡遍計所執是無體法。須是有體法。得為增上緣。即是依圓二性。皆是有體法。為增上緣義。若無體法。即是我法等。全無體故。從妄執生。非增上緣。一順。如水土。與青草等順增上緣。六波羅蜜行為佛果。為順增上緣。受取二支。與五果種子為順增上緣。二違。即如霜雹。與青草作違增上緣。又如智。與惑作違增上緣。即一念間智起時。惑便斷。即知一念有二增上。一念正與惑作違增上。便與二空理作順增上。三有力增上。亦名親增上。如五根發生五識等。四無力增上。即此人五根。望彼人五識。是無力增上。亦名疎增上。如燈焰正生時。一切大地等法不礙此焰生。名疎增上。但取不障礙義邊。名增上緣。

Answer: Ancient commentaries explain four kinds. As for the sovereign condition, it excludes the imaginary as a phenomenon lacking substance; it must be a phenomenon possessing substance that can serve as a sovereign condition. That is, the two natures of the dependent and consummate are both phenomena possessing substance, serving the meaning of a sovereign condition. Phenomena lacking substance—that is, self, dharmas, and the like—are completely devoid of substance; arising from false grasping, they are not sovereign conditions. First, the favorable: as water and earth are favorable sovereign conditions for green grass and the like; the practice of the six pāramitās is the favorable sovereign condition for the Buddha-fruit; the two branches of feeling and grasping are the favorable sovereign conditions for the seeds of the five fruits. Second, the contrary: as frost and hail serve as contrary sovereign conditions for green grass; also as wisdom serves as a contrary sovereign condition for delusion—namely, in a single thought-moment when wisdom arises, delusion is severed; thus one knows that a single thought-moment has two sovereign [aspects]: in a single thought-moment, while acting as a contrary sovereign [condition] toward delusion, it immediately acts as a favorable sovereign [condition] toward the truth of the two emptinesses. Third, the potent sovereign [condition], also called the immediate sovereign [condition]: as the five sense-faculties generate the five consciousnesses and so forth. Fourth, the non-potent sovereign [condition]: that is, this person's five faculties, relative to that person's five consciousnesses, are non-potent sovereign [conditions], also called remote sovereign [conditions]. As when a lamp flame is just arising, all phenomena such as the great earth do not obstruct the arising of this flame, which is called a remote sovereign [condition]. Taking merely the aspect of the meaning of non-obstruction, it is called a sovereign condition.