金剛經疏 1.1

1.1

Therefore women take anger as their strength, for when they wish to demand something, they must first become angry. Kings take haughtiness and arrogance as their strength. Arhats take vīrya as their strength. The Buddhas take great compassion as their strength. Monks take kṣānti as their strength. Thus the Legacy Teaching Sūtra says: 'One who can practice kṣānti can then be called a powerful, great person.' The verse of the seven Buddhas says: 'Kṣānti is the foremost path; the Buddhas say that the unconditioned is supreme. One who has left home yet vexes others is not called a śramaṇa.' Although there are three types of kṣānti, here [the text] takes anutpattika-dharma-kṣānti. Why is this? Because one arouses practice based on the sūtra, having neither of the two grasps, [grasping at] persons or phenomena. In the text there are three [aspects]: first, capable of enduring; second, free from suffering; third, having joy. This clarifies being capable of enduring. Because anutpattika-dharma-kṣānti is fathomed only by the Buddhas, it is called 'the Tathāgata's kṣānti-pāramitā.' Because other people cannot exhaust it, it is said to be 'not a pāramitā.' Now, saying 'kṣānti-pāramitā' refers to the Tathāgata's pure wholesome roots; 'not a pāramitā' means that it is not the wholesome roots of the people of the two vehicles. If so, one arouses practice based on the sūtra; having already given rise to the supreme endurance of the unborn, how could one view oneself as weary from painful feelings? Therefore the verse says: