大乘起信論略述 2.154

2.154

[Treatise:] Yet in reality this bodhisattva's [spiritual disposition and faculties are equal] ... because of the asaṃkhyeya kalpas. [Commentary:] This is the virtue of the actual practice not being different. "Yet in reality this bodhisattva's spiritual disposition and faculties are equal" has [four] senses: first, their spiritual disposition is equal, because all have entered the stage of the bodhisattva's spiritual disposition; second, their faculties are equal, because superior, middling, and inferior faculties are all the superior faculty; third, their aspiration is equal, because the arousal of the true mind and the like are all without distinction; fourth, that which they realize is equal, because all realize the fundamental principle of tathatā. As for "because all bodhisattvas" and so forth, it is subsequently explained and established in terms of time: from the initial correct faith up to the first bhūmi is the first asaṃkhyeya kalpa; from the first bhūmi up to the fulfilling mind of the seventh bhūmi is the second asaṃkhyeya; from the fulfillment of the eighth bhūmi up to the final mind of the tenth bhūmi is the third asaṃkhyeya. Since the kalpas are all three asaṃkhyeyas, there is in fact no transcending.