One Who Comes Up and Looks All Around

"Oh good man! A man rides a horse, and he both loves as whips it. It is thus. It is also the same with the mind that warms up. Due to craving, the life is obtained, and due to abandoning [the waiver], one meditates. For this reason, it is a thing of the 'is'. Although it is a created thing, it does represent the Right Way. Those who gain the warming-up are of 73 kinds, and the 10 of the world of desire. These persons are all clad in defilement. It goes from one-tenth to nine-tenths. Like in the case of the world of desire, the things range from the first dhyana up to the heaven of thoughtlessness-non-thoughtlessness. We say that there are 73 kinds. Such a person, on gaining the warming-up, never cuts off the roots of good, commits the five deadly sins, or the four grave offenses.

There are two types of these people. One associates with a good friend, and the other with a bad friend. One who associates with a bad friend comes up for awhile, but sinks again. One who associates with a Good Friend looks all around. Look all around refers to ‘topmost-height' ['murdhana' - this topmost dharma is a fruition of practice likened to the topmost height of a hill, which is both the topmost point, but it is also crucial for the falling down or retrogressing. It is a stage of practice in the Hinayana category - by Kosho Yamamoto]. The nature of this stage is yet of the class of five skandhas, and yet is related to the Four Truths. Hence, one can see all around. After the stage of 'topmost-height', the person attains that of 'cognition' [i.e. a stage of practice in which one obtains cognition of the nature of the Four Truths, and from which one no more is not retrogresses. There are several degrees at this stage - by Kosho Yamamoto]. This is the case with the stage of cognition, too. The nature is of the five skandhas, but is related to the Four Truths. This person then reaches laukikagradharma ['first-root-of-good-in-the-world'], which is of the nature of the five skandhas and has causal relations with the Four Truths. The person, gradually, gains the 'cognition of suffering’. The nature of Wisdom actualises the causal relation of the First Truth. Having thus actualised the causal relation of the Truth of Cognition, the person cuts away the defilement and attains the [level of] Srotapanna. This is the fourth stage of seeing all around in the four directions. The four directions are nothing more than the Four Truths."

Read More on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 42 - On Bodhisattva Kasyapa 3.

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