御注金剛般若波羅蜜經宣演 2.9

2.9

The Sūtra [states]: "Subhūti, I also recall ... up to ... had no mark of a living being." / Exposition: Third, clarifying the distinctions corresponding to patience, which are the varieties of patience. The treatise states: "What are the varieties of patience? They are the patience of extreme suffering and the patience of continuous suffering." The meaning of this is: the patience of extreme suffering refers to the dismemberment of the body; continuous patience refers to being an ascetic of patience for five hundred lifetimes, and so forth. It is not called a distinction merely on account of a single patience; constantly practicing life after life, with prior and subsequent being similar, is called the varieties of patience. In the treatise, wishing to distinguish the differences of patience, it again raises dismemberment; in principle it actually belongs to the preceding. As for the "ascetic of patience," he is a person of loving-kindness and compassion.