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論。三者分別至究竟離故　述曰。即五意中名為智識。念慮染淨名分別智。污淨心故名之為染。從第二地至第六地入觀緣理離分別時分分能除故云漸離。若至七地長時入觀故。此法執永不現行。名究竟離。具戒地者。即第二地。此地具足三聚戒故。無相方便即第七地。常作意住無相觀故。

The treatise says: "Third is the discriminating […] because of definitively abandoning it." Dankuang explains: This is the consciousness of cognition among the five kinds of consciousness (manas). Deliberating over defilement and purity is called "discriminating cognition." Dirtying the pure mind is called "defilement." From the second bhūmi to the sixth bhūmi, when entering contemplation to focus on principle and abandon discrimination, they are able to eliminate it part by part, and hence it is said they "gradually abandon it." If they reach the seventh bhūmi, because they enter contemplation for long periods, this attachment to phenomena never manifests in activity, which is called "definitively abandoning it." The "stage of endowed precepts" is the second bhūmi, because this bhūmi is endowed with the three clusters of precepts. The "expedient of signlessness" is the seventh bhūmi, because they constantly apply attention to abide in the contemplation of signlessness.