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We should distinguish idntavihdra from sukhavihdra, the former being nirodhasamd- patti (ii. 43b), which is similar to Nirvana (the idnta vimoksas, viii. p. 10, Majjhima i. 472). We owe to Samghabhadra (above note 57) the fact that the word sukha does not necessarily signify "agreeable sensation"; but sukhavihdra, being pratisamvedand, is "sensation. "
According to the Vibhdsd, the sukhavihdras solely refer to the four fundamental dhydnas, pure {iuddhaka) or andsrava, not to the prefatory spheres (sdmantakas) or the drupyas.
In Buddhaghosa, the Arhats (compare Majjhima, iii. 4) cultivate the right samdpattis (four dhydnas and four drupyas) "in order to agreeably pass the day with their minds concentrated" {ekaggacittd sukham divasam viharissdma), and the ninth samdpatti {samjfidveditanirodha) "in order to agreeably pass seven days delivered in mind, having attained nirodhd, Nirvana in this world": . . . sattdham acittakd hutvd dittheva dhamme nirodham nibbdnam patvd sukham viharissdma {Samantapdsddikd, i. 156).
155. The Vydkhyd explains the value of these two words. Jndna is a discernment (prajnd) associated with the mental consciousness {manovijHdnasamprayukta) which includes vikalpas (or "judgements" as here: "Beings, endowed with bad bodily actions. . . ;" Darsana, on the contrary, is discernment associated with the visual consciousness, and as such free from vikalpa {avikalpika prajfia, see i. 33a-b, English trans, p. 97).
Some references to jnanadarsana:
i. Worldly insight-consciousness.
a. The Buddha possesses asanga apratihata jnanadarsana with respect to the past,
present, and future (last three dvenikas of the Mahdvyutpatti, 9. Koia, vii. note 162); this fidnadassana is attraka, Dtgha, iii. 134.
Panadassana has previous existences for its sphere, Nettippakarana, 28.
b. The ascetic obtains fidnadassana through dlokasafifidmanasikdra (by having, both day and night, the idea that it is daytime, divdsarlnd); in this way sappabhdsam cittam bhdveti, Dtgha, iii. 223.
? The Bodhisattva obtains fidnadassana after samddhisampad, before the jhdnas, Majjhima, i. 203.
d. The Bodhisattva, before Bodhi, purifies his fidnadassana: he samjdndtis the obhdsa but does not see the rupas; then the gods, Anuttara, iv. 302.
e. The Niggantha affirms that "going, staying in place, lying down, awaking, fidnadassana is present in me without interruption," Anguttara, i. 220, iv. 428.
f. The jfidnadariana of &akra views what is below, Avaddnaiataka, i. 189.
g. Bodhisattvasya sarvavidydsthdnesv av? ahatam parisuddham paryavaddtam jfidnadarianam {Bodhisattvabhumi, I. xv, Museon 1906, 22a); later, by virtue of
vipa/yandparisuddhi, this jfidnadariana acquires prthuvrddhivaipulyatd.
ii. Consciousness, knowledge, sambodha.
a. Ko/a, vi. 75b, fidna = dassana; Majjhima, i. 173: fidnam nesam dassanam udapddi:
akuppd no vimutti; Mahdvyutpatti, 81. 9: vimuktasya vvmukto'smiti jfidnadarianam bhavati; this is the vimuktijfidnadarianaskandha {ibid. 4. 5, Koia, vi. p. 1033, vii. p. 1157).
? Footnotes 1301 c. Mahdvyutpatti, 245. 51: samyak pratydtmam jndnadarfanam pravartate.
b. ? ? fa, vi. 54, darfana = caksus, jftdna, vidyd, buddhi.
d. Anguttara, ii. 200: abhabbd te ndnadassanaya anyttardya abhisambodhdya.
156. Why does the text say: "The abhijna of divine sight has jnanadarsana for its result," and not: "The cultivation of the absorption of the abhijna of divine sight has jnanadarsana for its result? " The Vydkhya explains:
aha / divyacaksurabhijna jndnadarfanaya samvartata ity uktam na ca divyacaksurabhijndb samddhibhdvand / atrocyate / ayam phale hetupacdrah / yasya hetoh samddhibhdvandyd divyacaksurabhijHd phalarh tatra phale hetupacdrah / jndnadarfandya samddhibhdvaneti / yesdm punar ayam paksah sadvidhd muktimdrgadhir (vii. 42) iti dhyd nasamgrhit eva manasa vimuktimdrgah sad abhijna iti tesdm acodyam evaitat tesdm vimuktimdrgdndm samddhitatvdt / purvaka eva tupakso'bhidharmakofacintakdndm ity avagantavyam / divyacaksuhfrotravijudnayorabhijndtvendbhistatvdt.
157. Vydkhya: prajndprabheddyeti prajndvifesdkarsdya = vaifesikagundbhinirhdrdya, ? ? fa, vi. , note 415. Compare the expression iddippabheda, vii. trans. p. 1157.
158. The dharmas or gunas, "qualities," of the Three Dfeatus are afubhd, dndpdnasmrti, arand (viii. 36), pranidhijndna (vii. 37), pratisamvid, abhijrtd, vimoksa (viii. 32), abhibhvdya- tana, etc. The pure "qualities" are vimoksamukha (viii. 25), vyutkrantakasamdpatti (viii. l8c), dsravaksaydbhijnd, etc.
159. Vydkhya: traidhdtukd andsravd iti traidhdtukd asubhd. . . / atra tu samddhisamprayogdt prayokigdndm gundndm samddhibhdvanety upacdrah.
160. Vydkhya: bodhisattvo hi karmdntapratyaveksandya niskrdnto jambumule prathamam dhydnam utpdditavdn (see Kofa, iii. 41) / bodhimule ca devaputramdraih bhanktvd prathameydmedivyarhcaksurutpdditvdm/ tenadivyenacaksusasattvdncyutyupapattisam- kapasthdn abhiviksya tatparitrdndya madhyame ydme dhydnavimoksasamdpattih sammukhikrtavdn / te'sya prdyogikagundh prajftdprabheddya jayante / tatas trtiye ydme caturtham dhydnam niirita niydmam (vi. 26a) avakramyaydvadvajropamena samddhind sarvayojanaprahdnam krtavdn (Compare Majjhima, 122). On the conquest of Bodhi by the Bodhisattva, vii. p. 1145.
161. Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 420b8. "Why explain the Immeasurables immediately after the dhydnas? Because the dhydnas give rise to or produce the Immeasurable; because the dhydnas and the Immeasurables reciprocally occasion one another; because the Immeasura- bles are the best qualities among [those that produce the] dhydnas. "
162. Mahdvyutpatti, 69; Digha, iii. 223, catasso appamanftdyo; Dirgha, TD 1, p. 50c24, Ekottara, TD 2, p. 658a21, Madhyama, TD 1, p. 563b8.
These are the Four Brahmaviharas. Visuddhimagga, Atthasdlini, 192, Itivuttaka, 15, Bodhisattvabhumi, Musebn, 1911, p. 177, Yogasutram i. 33; cultivated by a Rajarasipravraj- ita, Divya, 122.
Considered by many sects as parts of Bodhi (Bhavya), Kosa, vi. p. 281; they figure in the presentation of the Path, Anuttara, i. 38, between the dhydnas and the smrtyupasthdnas.
On maitri and arand, ? ? fa, vii. 36; formula of maitri, iv. 124; difference between karund and mahdkarund, vii. 37.
Sarhghabhadra (in his Nydydnusdra, TD 29, p. 769? 7) observes here that the Immeasurables do no good to another. Why are they good and not morally neutral? Because they oppose hatred, etc. ; because they assure the mind of mastery over itself.
On the miracles that maitrisamapanna manifests, Divya, 1886. 2, Cullavagga, v. 6,1; Digha, ii. 238, etc.
163. Paramartha omits the second reason. P'u-kuang (TD 41, p. 433alO), because they produce immeasurable retributive results and outflowing results. Three reasons in Fa-pao
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164. Vydkhya: advesasvabhdvatvdn maitri vydpddapratipaksah / duhkhdpanayandkdratvdc ca karund duhkhopasamjdrdkdrdyd vihimsdydh pratipakso bhavati / muditd cdrateh pratipaksah saumanasyarupatvdt / upeksd ca mddhyasthaydt kdmardgavydpddayoh pratipaksa iti (apalsapdtitve ? ? ? ? anunito napi pratihata iti), v. 47, note 170.
165. Sarhghabhadra (in his Nydydnysdra, TD 26, p. 769bl6) says the contrary: Aiubha and upeksd oppose, in this order, sexual desire and the other desires. On the attachment to visible things, below viii. 32a.
166. We do not mean to say that a single dharma, upeksd^ possesses two natures; we mean to say that the word upeksd designates both non-desire and non-hatred.
167. Sukhitd vata sattvdh. The meaning is: "May they be happy! " Maitribhdvand analyzed as punyakriydvastu, iv. H2c; its efficacy, iv. l21b; above note 162.
168. Duhkhitvata sattvdh. The intention is: "May they be delivered from suffering! " 169. Compare the anumodand of the Mahayana (Bodhicarydvatdra, Third Chapter).
170. The absence of sympathy (anunaya) and antipathy (pratighdta). On samskdropeksd, iii. 35d.
171. See ii. 72, English trans, p. 320, adhimuktimanasikdra; vi. 9, viii. 32, 34, 35.
172. Dtgha, i. 250, iii. 223, etc.
173. Maulasuddhakadhydnabhumikatvdt: "They have the fundamental dhydnas of the iuddhaka or pure category for their sphere" (viii. 5). The prefatory (sdmantaka) absorptions bring about worldly abandoning of the defilements, not fundamental absorptions (viii. 21c).
174. Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 427b14. Do the Apramanas bring about the abandoning of the defilements? No. The abandoning (prahdna) of the defilements is of two types, temporary abandoning and definitive abandoning.
Concerning the first abandoning, the Sutra says that the Apramanas cause abandoning; of the second, the Samadhiskandha says that they do not bring about the abandoning.
Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 819bl0. Why do the Apramanas not bring about the abandoning of the defilements? For the following reasons: 1. on account of the diversity of their aspects; sixteen aspects cut off the defilements: the four aspects of the Apramanas do not; 2. the Apramanas are adhimuktimanasikdra; and only tattvamanasikdra cuts off the defilements; 3. the Apramana are anugrahamanasikara (tseng-i ? ^ ), beneficial act of attention; and only the acts of attention which do not have this characteristic cut off the defilements; 4. the Apramanas have for their object the present; and only the Path which has the three time periods, or the asamskrta for its object, cuts off the defilements; and 5. only dnantaryamdrga cuts off the defilements; and the Apramanas are obtained at the moment of vimuktimdrga.
175. Hsiian-tsang adds: "He has the idea that they are delivered from suffering and obtain happiness. "
176. Hsiian-tsang adds: "From equanimity one passes through the other categories to the moment when one has, for his greatest friends, the same though as for those to whom he is indifferent. "
177. References given by Saeki: Madhyama, TD 1, p. 582a17, p. 694a28 and following, Dirgha, TD 1, p. 490c3, p. 489b27, Prakaranapada, TD 26, p. 720c23-721b3, Samyukta-hr- daya, TD 28, p. 927al9, Tattvasiddhi (Ch'eng-shih lun), TD 32, p. 15. 10, and the Amrta-sdstra, TD 28, p. 976al8.
Dtgha, ii. 70 (Lotus, 824; Dialogues; O. Franke, 212), Atthasdlinil90, Patisambhidd
? magga, ii. 38, Dhammasangani, 248 (seven).
Mabdvyutpatti, 70 (according to the Samgitiparydya, TD 26, p. 443a26); Chavannes,
Religieux erainents, p. 164, compare the Mabdvyutpatti and the Numerical Dictionary. Vasubandhu follows Vibbdsd, TD 27, p. 434bl5, where the svabhdva (nature) of the
Vimoksas, their bbumi (the stage in which one produces them), their as*raya (the persons who produce them), their dkdra (aspect), their dlambana (object), their smrtyupastbdna (of which "application of mindfulness" they consist), their labha (mode of acquisition), etc. are explained.
178. Text of the Vydkbyd:
a. rupi rupdni pasyati.
b. adhydtmam arUpasamjni bahirdha rupdni pasyati.
c. iubham vimoksam kdyena sdksdtkrtvopasampadya vibarati.
d. sarvaso rupasamjndndm samatikramdt pratighasamjudndm astamgamdn ndndtvasamj-
ndndm amanasikdrdd anantam dkasam anantam dkdiam ity akas an ant ? ay at an am upasampadya vibarati tad ? at h a devd dkdsdnantydyatanopagdh.
e. punar aparam sarvafa dkdidnantydyatanam samatikramyanantam vijfidnam anantam vijndnam Hi vijndndnantydyatanam upasampadya vibarati todyatha devd vijndndnantydya- tanopagdb.
f. punar aparam sarvafo vijndndnantydyatanam samatikramya ndsti kim cid ity dkincanydyatanam upasampadya vibarati tadyathd devd dkincanyaydyatanopagdb.
g. punar aparam sarva/a dkincanydyatanam samatikramya naivasamjndndsamjndyata- nam upasampadya vibarati tadyathd devd naivasamjndndsamjndyatanopagdh.
h. punar aparam sarva/o naivasamjfidndsamjndyatanam samatikramya samjndveditani- rodham kdyena sdksdtkrtvopasampadya viharaty ayam astamo vimoksa iti.
179. It is very difficult to interpret this formula.
a. The Pali sources read rupi rupdni passati; the Vydkbyd comments: rupi rilpdniti
svdtmani rupdni vibhdvya bahir apt rupdni pasyati.
Paramartha, Hsiian-tsang, one of the versions of the Mabdvyutpatti, 70, and
Harivarman (in his Tattvasiddhi), read adhydtmam rupasamjni bahirdha rupdni pasyati (which is the formula of the Abhibhvayatanas, viii. 35).
b. The exegesis of the Abhidhamma is developed in Patisambhidd, ii. 38a and elsewhere: the ascetic considers rupa (blue, nila, etc. ) which is internal and external (First Vimokka), and then only external rupa (Second Vimokka). It appears probable that the Kosa intends the same.
? What is the meaning of the expression rupdni vibhdvya (Vydkbyd quoted above a. )? According to Atthasdlini, 163: "In the expressions rupam sannam vibhdvehi, the word vibhdvand signifies antaradhdpana, to make disappear. " Above, Kofa, viii. 3a, vibhutarupa- samjnd = which makes the notion of rupa disappear.
Harivarman translates vibhdvand as "to expell, break. " "First Vimoksa: adhydtmam rupasamjni bahirdha rupdni paiyati [=He grasps the notion of internal rupa (=of the body) as being horrible (afubha), and continues to see external rupa: The ascetic, by this Vimoksa breaks and rends (p'o-lieh ? ? ) ? ? ? ? . How do we know this? Because, in the Second Vimoksa, it is said: adhydtmam arUpasamjni bahirdha rupdni pafyati. The ascetic is termed adhydtmam arUpasamjni, because he has broken internal rupa. By this we know that in the First Vimoksa the ascetic sees only external rupa, the internal rupa having been eliminated. In the Third Vimoksa, the external rupa also having been eliminated, the ascetic no longer sees internal and external rupa. This is what is called the notion of rupa, he abandons-des- troys desire; he does not see any internal or external dtman. " Compare Suttanipdta, 1113: vibhutarupasannissa sabbakdyappahdyino (the Chinese reads kdma) ajjhattam ca bahiddhd ca n'atthi kim citi passato.
180. Hsiian-tsang differs. Karika: The Vimoksas are of eight types. The first three are
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non-desire (alobha); two are in two absorptions; one in one absorption . . . Bbasya:. . . the first two are, by their nature, non-desire, because they oppose desire. The Sutras (Madhyama, TD 1, p. 582a 17) define Vimoksa by saying that the ascetic sees (pafyati): [it does not mean that Vimoksa is sight; it expresses itself thus] because seeing increases Vimoksa. Hsiian-tsang puts into the text of Vasubandhu the definition of Vibhdsd volume 84 (TD 27, p. 434b28) [where it is noted that the eighth Vimoksa is a cittaviprayuktasamskd- raskandha}.
181. This opposition is duribhdvapratipaksa "opposition which renders distant" (v. 61, p. 855) for, from the fact that the ascetic enters into the First Dhyana, attachment to the rupa of Kamadhatu is already abandoned (prahina: by means of a prahdnapratipaksa realized in andgamya, viii. p. 1268, line 25).
182. See iii. 43: One does not die in a state of samddhi.
183. Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 434cl: Why are they called Vimoksas? What is the meaning of vimoksa} The meaning of vimoksa is "rejection" (ch'i-pei ? ^? >> to discard, turn the back o n ) . . . The first two reject the mind of desire for rupa (rupalobhacitta); the third rejects aiubhasamjfia; the Four Vimoksas of Arapyadhatu each reject the mind of the sphere immediately below; the Vimoksa of nirodhasamdpatti rejects any thought having an object (salambanacitta). Consequently the meaning of vimoksa is "rejection. " The Bhadanta says that the Vimoksas are so called because they are obtained by the force of adhimoksa; according to PasVa, because they are the locus wherein one rejects.
184. See ii. 44d, vi. 64a, viii. 196. Majjhima, U60, 301,333,400,456, Anguttara, iv. 426,448. 185. Hsuan-tsang corrects: "because it turns its back on everything that has an object
(sdlamba)" that is to say, the mind and mental states.
186. Hsuan-tsang: "The Eight Vimoksa is called Vimoksa because it delivers . . . "
It is evident that the possession of the Eighth Vimoksa, [which confers the name of Kiyasaksin and, when one is an Arhat, the name of Ubhyatobhagavimukta], assures perfect mastery in absorption, the complete deliverance of vimoksdvarana (vi. 64a); but the version of Paramartha is doubtless correct, for the possession of the first two Vimoksas, which supposes the cultivation of the First Dhyana, makes this same cultivation sharper by "making more distant" the rupa already abandoned (above note 181), by giving the mind karmanyatd (see following note). The Third Vimoksa surpresses obstacles to the Vimoksas
of the sphere of Rupadhatu (rupivimoksdvarana, below note 198).
187. The obstacle is the ineptitude of the mind (akarmanyatd) which causes a person detached from the three Dhatus to be incapable at the same time of entering the First Dhyana.
188. Vibhdsd TD 27, p. 774al4: The Darstantikas and the Vibhajyavadins maintain that a subtle mind is not destroyed in nirodhasamdpatti. According to them, there is no being (sattva) without matter (rupa), and there is no absorption without the mind. If absorption were free from mind, the vital organ (jivitendriya) would be cut off; one would say that [the ascetic] is dead and not that he is in an absorption. In order to refute this opinion, one indicates that nirodhasamdpatti is absolutely without mind. See Kosa, ii. 44d, note 253.
189. Definition of Bhavagra, viii. 4c.
190. According to the Mahayana, the "entering mind" of this absorption is always andsrava, and the leaving mind is of two types, andsrava or sdsrava. . . Among the Buddhas, the Eight Vimoksas are andsrava; among others, the Eighth is always andsrava, the first seven are of two types accordingly as they have for their nature worldly or transworldly knowledge (laukikalokottarajndna).
? 191. Anvayajndna is the Path with the exception of the part of Path relative to Kamadhatu. The Vydkhyd indicates the spheres where the Vimoksas are cultivated: eleven spheres
by excluding seven sdmantakas.
192. Vydkhyd: aha / katamah punar apratisamkhydnirodhas tesdm dlambananam / atrocyate / aiaiksasydnimittasya samddher apratisaihkhydnirodham dlambate / ete hy drupyd vimoksa dnimittdnimittasamddhisvabhdvdh sambhavanti (viii. 26c).
193. Akd/a is the object of the dkdsdnantydyatana Vimoksa.
194. Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 436? 0: Because he wishes to assure himself whether the kusalamulasarecomplete(man ft )ornot. Theasceticthinks:EventhoughI contemplate the horrible (aiubha), I do not produce any defilements, but I do not know if the kusalamulas are complete; if, by contemplating the agreeable, the defilements do not arise, I would know that the kusalamulas are complete.
195. See vii. 42,48. On abhinirhara, see Speyer, Avaddnasataka, ii. 221; index of the Mahdvastu and the Divya; Mahdvyutpatti, 21. 88, 25. 12; Levi ad Sutrdlamkdra, iv. 12; Rhys Davids-Stede.
On arya rddhi in Pali sources, vii. p. 1168.
196. Vydkhyd: atra sdksdtkrtveti pratyaksikrtyety arthah / upas amp adya viharatiti tarn samdpattim samapadya viharatity arthah.
vi. 43c, 58b (p. 1006), 63; viii. p. 1232. Vttarddhyayana, v. 23, SBE, 45, p. 23.
Compare the expressions phusati cetosamddhim, nirodham (Digha, 184), and catasso appamannayo (Theragdthd, 386), etc.
Vibhdsd, TD 27, p. 776a21: In the other Sutras, the Bhagavat employs, in the definition of the Eight Vimoksas, the expression kdyena sdksdtkrtvd upasampadya viharati; notably in the Mahdhetupratyayasutra. . . Some say: "The Third and Eighth Vimoksas are found at the end of the two Dhatus . . . " Some say: "These two Vimoksas are found at the end of two bhumis.