rough translation:
http://www.4ui.com/cart/sichan.htm
1)´ÖÐÄס rough mind residing - sever the reckless mind
2)ϸÐÄס fine mind residing - become routine/habituos of
meditating, body are more still.
3)Óû½ç¶¨ desire realm stillness - able to tame the mind
4)δÀ´ìø future jhana - body felt almost transparent. taming of
mind is almost natural. one's ready to enter the real jhana.
1)³õìø first jhana/meditative state - one feel that the body is
moving, but it's a pleasant feeling. the taste and smell
consciousness almost disappear. no more attached to desire of form,
wealth, fame, food, sleep. there's 4 supports: feeling;
observation; joy; happiness; one-pointed mind.
2)¶þìø /ʥĬȻ¶¨ second jhana/holy silence stillness - having found
out that there's still feeling and observation, one begin to sever
both feeling and observation. no more discrimination of speech. one
sever sight, sound, body consciousness, leaving only the mind
consciousness. there's 4 supports: inner peace; joy; happiness;
one-pointed mind.
3)Èýìø third jhana - when the mind become more still, one felt
another form of happiness. of all the happiness felt, this is the
most blissful. there's 4 supports: detachment; mindful; wisdom;
happiness; settled mind.
4)ËÄìø fouth jhana - felt that the happiness is suffering too,
hence wish to sever it. the mind is further stilled. one developed
spiritual powers naturally, but it's different from the power of
ghosts. there's 4 supports: neither suffering nor happy;
detachment; purity of mind; one-pointed mind.
1)¿ÕÎޱߴ¦¶¨ stillness of Infinite Space - felt that one need to
sever even form thinking and form object. form thinking is due to
sight. form object is due to smell, taste, touch, sound. there's
this thinking of boundless voidness, without phenomona or desire.
but that does not mean the mind is useless, there's still the 4
aggregates of sensation, cognition, habits and consciousness.
2)ʶÎޱߴ¦¶¨ stillness of Infinitude of Consciousness - felt that
the cognition of voidness is also not at peace. so in order to
sever that thinking, one maintain a knowing of the thought. make
one knew the boundless thoughts of the past and future. but in
actual fact there's still congnition. stillness of Infinite Space
is done on intentionally, while stillness of Infinitude of
Consciousness is rejection of the thought.
3)ÎÞËùÓ䦶¨ stillness of Nothingness - there's still this
affliction of the cognition doing suppressing of cognitions. hence
one thought there's a realm where there's nothingness, where
there's more peaceful and blissful. tried to rid all cognitions.
but in fact there are still very fine cognition. there are no
discrimination of all things, but just the
discrimination/attachment of nothingness.
4)·ÇÏë·Ç·ÇÏë´¦¶¨ stillness of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception
- one still thinks that the cognition is very rough. one do not
want all of them nor not all of them. as stillness of Infinite
Space is cognition of voidness. stillness of Infinitude of
Consciousness is conscious of cognition. stillness of Nothingness
is no cognition, but is in fact very fine cognition. one want to
enter Neither Perception nor Non-Perception. in stillness of
Nothingness, there still stillness. but in Neither Perception nor
Non-Perception, there's not even 'stillness'. but the 6th
consciousness are still working, which one do not know. moreover,
there are the 7th and 8th consciousness at work. the hinayana
thought there's just the 6th consciousness. the mahayana knew that
the 6th consciousness is attached to the 8th consciousness, hence
known as the 7th consciousness.
Ã𾡶¨ extinguish stillness - one realised that the cognition are
due to the 7th consciousness' attachment to 8th consciousness as a
'self'. so in order to reach extinguish stillness, one stops the
7th consciousness/mana, sever the attachment of self. only the
third stage arahat reaches this state. but when they are out of
their meditative state, they went back to self attachment again.
only fouth stage arahat severed the self attachment permanently. as
for bodhisattva can achieve extinguish stillness depend, some say
yes, some say no. the mind-only school thinks that when bodhisattva
reached extinguish stillness, they would have no rebirth in
samsara, hence not able to practice bodhisattva path.
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