御注金剛般若波羅蜜經宣演 2.12

2.12

The Commentary says: According to the prose commentary, the first two lines are questions and the lower two lines are answers. First, it asks: for what purpose does the mind not abandon the mark of bodhi? Second, it asks: for what purpose does one give rise to the marks of practice and cultivate? The lower two lines answer: 'For patience, etc.' means that with the absence of marks such as a self, one generates the mind and cultivates practice. However, according to that treatise, from the first ground onward, one realizes the ultimate truth; the perfection of patience obtained is called the non-abiding mind. Citing this as proof, it exhorts: bodhisattvas before the grounds, when generating the mind, should also be free from all marks; hence it says that those who have not generated the foremost bodhi-mind have such faults, and to guard against these faults, etc.