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遍處 (kṛtsnāyatana) — The Ten Spheres of Totality

这个概念在说什么

Imagine you've learned to look away from something that disturbs you. Then you've learned to look *at* it without being disturbed. Now comes the final question: can you look at *everything* — without a single gap, without a single blind spot — and remain perfectly unmoved?

That final question is what 遍處 (Sanskrit: *kṛtsnāyatana*, "sphere of totality") is about.

The *Abhidharmakośa* (《阿毘達磨俱舍論》, T1558, composed by Vasubandhu, translated by Xuanzang) gives the defining formula in one sentence: "於一切處周遍觀察無有間隙，故名遍處" — "Because one observes pervasively in all directions without any gap, it is called a 'sphere of totality.'" Two words carry the entire weight: 周遍 (pervasive, all-encompassing) and 無間隙 (without gap, without seam). Not "mostly." Not "wherever I happen to look." Every direction, every dimension, no exception, no remainder.

Where it sits: the three gates of meditative mastery

遍處 does not stand alone. The *Kośa* consistently groups it with two companion attainments as a three-stage curriculum:

| Stage | Name | Core verb | What it does | |-------|------|-----------|--------------| | 1 | 八解脫 (aṣṭa-vimokṣa, eight liberations) | 棄背 — turning away | You learn to *disengage* from what binds | | 2 | 八勝處 (aṣṭābhibhv-āyatana, eight spheres of mastery) | 制伏 — mastering | You learn to *command* the object so that "隨所樂觀惑終不起" — however you choose to observe, affliction simply does not arise | | 3 | 十遍處 (daśa-kṛtsnāyatana, ten spheres of totality) | 周遍 — pervading | You extend that mastery until observation is *gapless*, leaving no corner where a latent reaction could hide |

The *Kośa* states the logic explicitly: "從諸解脫入諸勝處，從諸勝處入諸遍處，以後後起勝前前故" — "From the liberations one enters the spheres of mastery; from the spheres of mastery one enters the spheres of totality; because what arises later surpasses what came before." Each stage is *勝* (superior) to the one before — not because the earlier ones are dispensable, but because each later one demands everything the earlier one achieved and then asks for more.

Think of it this way. 解脫 is learning to close a window when a storm blows in. 勝處 is learning to stand in the storm and not be moved. 遍處 is discovering that the storm is *everywhere* — above, below, in every direction, with no sheltered corner remaining — and your equanimity still does not flicker. The object is no longer something you *choose* to face; it has become the entire field, and you are still free within it.

The ten spheres: what they actually are

The *Kośa* summarizes in one verse (頌):

"遍處有十種，八如淨解脫，後二淨無色，緣自地四蘊。" "The spheres of totality are ten in number. The first eight are like the pure liberations; the last two have the pure formless attainments as their essence, each taking the four aggregates of its own level as object."

The ten are: 地 (earth), 水 (water), 火 (fire), 風 (wind), 青 (blue), 黃 (yellow), 赤 (red), 白 (white), 空 (space), 識 (consciousness).

They divide into two fundamentally different groups:

The first eight (earth through white): Their 自性 (essential nature) is 無貪 — *non-greed*, non-attachment. This is crucial and easily missed. The meditation object is a color or an element, but the *inner achievement* is the total absence of grasping. If you include the 助伴 (accompanying factors), the full psychological package is all five aggregates (五蘊) working together — but the defining note, the thing that makes this a *遍處* rather than mere concentration, is non-greed pervading the entire field. These eight are grounded in the 第四靜慮 (fourth dhyāna) — the highest form-realm absorption, where even the subtle movements of joy and pleasure have stilled — and their object is 欲界可見色, visible form belonging to the desire realm. In other words: you take the most ordinary, most "below-you" material — the visible world of sense desire — and you suffuse it entirely with the equanimity of the fourth dhyāna. There is no escape upward into finer realms. The work is done *here*, in the realm of visible things.

A note on 風遍處 (the wind sphere): the *Kośa* records a dissenting opinion (有餘師說) holding that wind alone among the eight takes as its object not visible form (色塵) but the tangible wind-element (所觸中風界) — the *felt* quality of movement and pressure, not its appearance. The mainstream position treats wind like the other seven, taking its visible manifestation. The very existence of this debate tells you something: these practitioners were being extraordinarily precise about *what exactly* the mind is pervading. Not "wind as a concept," but wind as a specific sensory datum — and they argued about which sense-door it enters.

The last two (space and consciousness): These are categorically different. Their essence is not non-greed within form, but the 淨無色 — the *pure formless attainments* themselves. 空遍處 is the 空無邊處 (ākāśānantyāyatana, sphere of infinite space) in its purified form; 識遍處 is the 識無邊處 (vijñānānantyāyatana, sphere of infinite consciousness) in its purified form. Their object is not any external thing but 自地四蘊 — the four non-material aggregates (feeling, perception, formations, consciousness) *of their own level*. They have, as it were, turned the gapless observation back upon the observing apparatus itself. Space pervades without finding any form to pervade; consciousness pervades without finding any object outside itself. The "no gap" quality reaches its logical limit: what could be outside of infinite space? What could be outside of infinite consciousness?

Who can attain this, and in what body?

The *Kośa* adds a practical detail that is easy to skip but philosophically loaded: "四無色解脫、二無色遍處，一一通依三界身起，餘唯人起" — the two formless spheres of totality can arise in a being of *any* of the three realms (desire, form, formless), but the first eight can arise *only in a human body* (唯人起). And further: 異生及聖皆能現起 — both ordinary practitioners (異生, pṛthagjana, "worldlings") and noble ones (聖, ārya) can manifest them, through the power of teaching (教力).

This means two things. First: the human body, with its specific sensory apparatus — eyes that see color, skin that feels wind — is not an obstacle to the highest form-sphere attainments. It is their *necessary condition*. You need a body that can see blue in order to pervade blue without gap. Second: you do not need to be enlightened to reach these states. They are technical achievements of attention, available to anyone with the training. The *Kośa* is matter-of-fact about this. A worldling with sufficient instruction can do it. What separates the noble path is not *whether* you can pervade an object without gap, but *what you understand* while doing so.

What 遍處 is NOT: three look-alikes

The *Kośa* itself flags three concepts that share the character 遍 but belong to entirely different domains:

- 遍行 (sarvatraga, "pervasive mental factors"): The ten mental factors present in *every* single moment of consciousness — feeling, perception, volition, contact, attention, and so on. The verse runs: "受想思觸欲，慧念與作意，勝解三摩地，遍於一切心." These are the universal furniture of mind. But the *Kośa* adds a warning: "遍行謂前遍，為同地染因" — these pervasive factors serve as the *cause of defilement* within their own level. Their "pervasiveness" is the problem, not the solution. They are everywhere because they are the machinery through which affliction operates. 遍處 is the opposite: a trained, deliberate pervasion that *undoes* what 遍行 automatically *does*.

- 遍知 (parijñā, "full knowledge"): A principle of the path of cultivation: "遍知所緣故、斷彼能緣故、斷彼所緣故、對治起故斷" — one fully knows the object, severs the subject that grasps it, severs what it grasps, and through the arising of the antidote, abandonment occurs. This is *insight* (觀, vipaśyanā) — analytical, discriminative, cutting. 遍處 is *concentration* (定, samādhi) — expansive, unifying, filling. They are complementary but not interchangeable.

- 法念住 (dharma-smṛtyupasthāna, mindfulness of dharmas): "總觀四所緣，修非常及苦，空非我行相" — one surveys all four objects of mindfulness and cultivates the aspects of impermanence, suffering, emptiness, and non-self. This too involves a kind of "pervasive observation," but it is the pervasiveness of *wisdom scanning for characteristics*, not the pervasiveness of *absorption saturating a field*. The *Kośa* is careful: this belongs to the 觀慧門 (gate of insight), not to the 定境 (meditative attainment) that 遍處 is.

The distinction matters enormously. In all three cases, something "goes everywhere." But *what* goes everywhere, *how*, and *to what end* are completely different. Automatic mental factors go everywhere and bind you. Insight goes everywhere and frees you by cutting. 遍處 goes everywhere and frees you by *leaving no room for anything else to arise*.

生活里的走查

Let's walk through an ordinary contemporary day and see where 遍處 maps — and, more importantly, where the mapping *breaks*, because that's where the concept teaches you something you didn't expect.

Morning commute: the field you didn't choose

You're on the subway. Noise: a phone playing short videos without headphones, a baby crying two cars down, the screech of metal on the curve. Smell: someone's breakfast, damp wool. Sight: a hundred faces, advertisements, your own reflection in the dark window. Body: the sway, the elbow in your ribs, the phone burning your palm.

An untrained mind does what the *Kośa* would call following 遍行 — the automatic pervasiveness of contact (觸), feeling (受), perception (想), volition (思). Every sense-door fires, and each firing triggers a little chain: contact → feeling-tone (pleasant/unpleasant/neutral) → recognition → impulse to grasp or push away. This happens *everywhere, without gap* — but it is the wrong kind of gaplessness. It is the gaplessness of being *colonized*. There is no corner of your experience that the automatic machinery hasn't reached. You are, in the precise Abhidharma sense, pervaded — but by defilement, not by freedom.

Now: what would 遍處 look like here? It would *not* look like zoning out. It would not look like noise-canceling headphones (that is 解脫 — turning away, 棄背). It would not look like choosing one pleasant object — the music in your ears, the podcast — and locking onto it so the irritation can't get in (that is closer to 勝處 — mastering a chosen object so affliction doesn't arise *from that object*).

遍處 would be: the entire sensory field of the subway car — every sound, every color, every pressure, every smell — taken in *without a single gap*, and yet the quality of non-greed (無貪) is what pervades it. You are not selecting. You are not avoiding. The field is total. And within that totality, there is no foothold for "I want this to be different." The baby's cry and the video noise and the elbow are not *tolerated*; they are *included* in a field that is already, completely, without remainder, okay. Not because they are pleasant. Because the observing is gapless, and a gapless observation leaves no seam for aversion to wedge into.

The most common mapping error here: people think "equanimity on the subway" means *not noticing*. They think the goal is to be blank, unaffected, "above it all." But the *Kośa* definition is explicit: 周遍觀察 — *observation*, not cessation of observation. 無間隙 — no gap in the *seeing*, not no gap in the stimulus. You see *more*, not less. You hear the baby more clearly than the person with headphones. You just don't *add* anything to it.

Scrolling your phone: infinite space, wrong direction

You open a social media app "for a second." Twenty minutes later you surface. What happened? In a loose, contemporary sense, you entered a kind of 空遍處 — infinite space. The feed has no edge. You scroll and scroll and there is always more. The field is literally designed to be 無間隙 — no natural stopping point, no gap where you could pause and choose. The algorithm ensures that the moment one item ends, another is already there. Total pervasion of your attention, zero gaps.

But this is the *inversion* of 空遍處. The real 空遍處 is infinite space pervaded by *pure, purified formless absorption* — 淨無色為其自性. Its "essence" is the clarity of a mind that has released all form. The phone's infinite scroll has infinite space as its *object*, but its "essence" is 貪 — greed, the wanting of the next hit. The structure (gapless, boundless) is similar. The 自性 is opposite. One is non-greed saturating infinity; the other is greed *exploiting* infinity.

This is why the *Kośa* insists that the first eight 遍處 have 無貪 as their self-nature. The achievement is not the *scope* of attention. Any algorithm can give you infinite scope. The achievement is *what quality of mind* pervades that scope. A feed that never ends, met with craving, is not a sphere of totality. It is a sphere of captivity with the walls removed so you can't find the door.

A difficult conversation: from mastery to pervasion

Your partner says something that lands wrong. You feel the heat rise. You've done some work on yourself — you can catch the reaction, choose not to snap back. In the *Kośa*'s framework, this is 勝處: you have mastered the object. "隨所樂觀惑終不起" — however you choose to look at this remark, the affliction does not arise. You can turn it over, see it from angles, and stay regulated. Good. This is real achievement.

But notice: 勝處 still has a *chosen* object. You are managing *this remark*, *this person*, *this conversation*. What about the background hum of resentment from last month? What about the way their face looked when they said it — you hadn't noticed you were tracking that? What about the tension in your own jaw that you've been holding so long it feels normal?

遍處 asks: can your non-reactive awareness be *gapless*? Not just over the words being spoken, but over the entire field — their tone, their body, your body, the history in the room, the future you're already anxiously scripting, the part of you that *wants* to be the one who stays calm so you can feel superior? All of it, simultaneously, without a seam where a hidden agenda can operate?

This is why 遍處 comes *after* 勝處. You can't pervade what you can't yet master. If you can't stay regulated in a focused conversation, you certainly can't stay regulated when the field expands to include everything. But mastery of a chosen object is not yet freedom, because what you *don't* choose to look at is precisely where the unexamined material lives. 遍處 removes the luxury of selection.

Parenting a toddler: the body as the entire field

A two-year-old is screaming in a supermarket. You are holding them, your back aches, other people are looking, your phone is buzzing with a work message, you haven't eaten lunch, and the screaming is at a frequency that seems to vibrate your actual teeth.

There is no "chosen object" here. There is no option to focus on one thing and master it. The field is *already* total. Every sense-door is being assaulted simultaneously, without gap, without mercy. The toddler has, inadvertently, created the *conditions* of 遍處 — an inescapable, all-pervading sensory field — but without the 自性 of non-greed. What pervades, in the untrained moment, is 瞋 (aversion): *I want this to stop. I want to be elsewhere. I want a different life than this one.*

The practice, in the *Kośa*'s terms, would be: can this very totality — the screaming, the aching back, the judgmental strangers, the buzzing phone, the hunger, the teeth-vibration — can *all of it, without gap*, be the field in which 無貪 operates? Not "I will endure this." Not "I will focus on my breath and ignore the rest." Those are 解脫 (turning away) and 勝處 (selective mastery). 遍處 is: the field is already total. The only question is what *quality* pervades it alongside the noise. Can non-grasping be as total as the screaming?

Mapping error to flag: this is not "being a doormat" or "suppressing your needs." The *Kośa* locates 遍處 in the fourth dhyāna — a state of extraordinary *clarity* and *power*, not passivity. Non-greed (無貪) is not the absence of preference. You can still pick up the toddler, leave the supermarket, text your boss "five minutes." The action happens. What's absent is the *grasping quality* — the "this shouldn't be happening to *me*" that adds a second layer of suffering on top of the first.

Late at night: consciousness observing itself

You can't sleep. The house is dark and silent. There is no external object anymore — no screen, no conversation, no task. And yet the mind is *full*. Memories, plans, half-formed sentences, the ghost of a song, a worry about next week, a replay of something you said three years ago.

This is the territory of 識遍處 — the sphere of infinite consciousness. In the *Kośa*'s framework, its object is 自地四蘊: the four aggregates of its own level. Feeling, perception, formations, consciousness — observing *themselves*. Not observing a thing *out there*. Observing the observing.

The late-night version is the *afflicted* parody: consciousness churning through its own content, infinitely, without gap, but with the quality of 掉舉 (restlessness) and 貪 (wanting it to be different) rather than 淨 (purity). You are, in a sense, already in infinite consciousness. It's just not *pure*. The content is the same — mind observing mind — but the 自性 is agitation rather than clarity.

The classical 識遍處 would be: this same boundless field of mental activity, but met with the 淨無色 — the purified formless absorption. The thoughts arise. They are infinite. There is no gap between them. And the quality pervading that infinity is not "I must fix this" or "why can't I stop thinking" but a luminous, non-grasping *awareness of awareness itself*. The content doesn't need to stop. The *relationship* to the content changes.

当代人为什么需要它

The attention economy has stolen the structure without the substance

Contemporary life is, structurally, an environment of *enforced pervasion*. Notifications ensure there is no gap. Infinite scrolls ensure there is no edge. Open offices, group chats, always-on cameras ensure there is no corner of your day that is not *observed* or *observable*. The field is total. The 無間隙 condition is met — but by external design, for someone else's profit, with the 自性 of greed rather than non-greed.

The *Kośa*'s framework gives you something that "digital wellness" tips do not: a *taxonomy*. It lets you see that the problem is not "too much stimulation" (that framing suggests the solution is *less* stimulation, i.e., 解脫 — turning away). The deeper problem is that your attention is being pervaded *by the wrong quality*. You don't just need fewer inputs. You need a different *essence* pervading the inputs you have. 遍處 says: the goal is not a smaller field. The goal is a field — however large — saturated with non-grasping.

This is why "just put the phone down" is 解脫-level advice, and why it keeps failing. It works for an hour. Then the gap you created gets filled again, because you never developed the capacity to be *within* the total field without being *of* it. 勝處-level advice — "choose your inputs carefully, curate your feed, practice focused attention" — is better, and genuinely necessary. But it still assumes you get to choose the object. Life, like the toddler, does not always let you choose. 遍處 is the training for when the field is *given*, not chosen, and you must find freedom *within* the totality rather than *from* it.

The "mindfulness" industry has collapsed the three stages into one

Much of what is sold as contemporary mindfulness is, in the *Kośa*'s precise language, a diluted 勝處 at best: pick an object (the breath, a body sensation, a mantra), master your attention on it, and affliction doesn't arise *while you're doing it*. This is genuinely useful. But it is stage two of three. And it has a structural limitation: it only works in conditions where you *can* choose and control the object. The meditation cushion. The quiet room. The ten-minute app session.

遍處 is what happens when you take that mastery off the cushion and into the unchosen, ungovernable, gapless totality of an actual life. The *Kośa*'s insistence that 遍處 is *after* 勝處 — 以後後起勝前前故 — is a warning against premature claims. If you can be calm on the cushion but not in the supermarket, you have 勝處 without 遍處. The mastery is real but *local*. The pervasion hasn't happened yet.

The human body is not a limitation to overcome

In an age of virtual reality, brain-computer interfaces, and dreams of "uploading" consciousness, the *Kośa*'s quiet statement — 前八遍處唯人起, the first eight spheres arise *only in a human body* — lands strangely and beautifully. You need eyes that see blue. You need skin that feels wind. You need a body in the desire realm, with all its clumsiness and specificity, in order to do this work. The formless spheres (space, consciousness) can arise anywhere, in any realm — but the *color* spheres, the *element* spheres, require a human sensory apparatus.

This is not a limitation to be engineered away. It is a statement about where freedom is *located*: not in escaping embodiment, but in pervading embodiment without gap. The blue you see with your actual, aging, imperfect eyes is the blue that must be pervaded. Not a higher, finer, digital blue. This one. The one available to a body that will die.

"Non-greed" as the essence, not "concentration"

Perhaps the most counterintuitive teaching for a contemporary reader: the *Kośa* says the self-nature of the first eight 遍處 is 無貪 (non-greed), not 定 (concentration). Concentration is the *vehicle*. Non-greed is the *achievement*. You could have extraordinary concentration — and indeed, the fourth dhyāna is an extraordinary state — and if the quality pervading the field is even subtly one of *wanting* (wanting the state to last, wanting to be the kind of person who has this state, wanting the object to be a certain way), it is not yet 遍處.

This maps onto a contemporary experience many people recognize: you can "hack" your attention, optimize your focus, enter flow states, and still be *greedy* within them. The productivity guru who is in flow for twelve hours a day but is doing it *because he is terrified of being ordinary* has mastery without non-greed. The field is total, the focus is gapless, but the 自性 is 貪. In the *Kośa*'s terms, this is not a 遍處. It is a very sophisticated 遍行 — the automatic machinery of craving, now operating at scale.

常见误读与澄清

Misreading 1: "遍處 is just advanced kasina meditation — a concentration trick"

In the Pali tradition (where these are called *kasiṇa*, e.g., in the *Dīgha Nikāya*'s *Saṅgīti Sutta* and extensively in Buddhaghosa's *Visuddhimagga*), the ten kasiṇas are indeed taught as concentration objects: you gaze at a disk of earth, a disk of color, and expand the mental image until it fills all space. This is accurate as far as it goes. But the *Kośa* adds a layer the practice-manual framing can miss: the *point* is not the expansion of the image. The point is that 無貪 becomes the quality that pervades. The disk is the *occasion*. Non-greed is the *achievement*. If you expand the blue disk to infinity but your mind is still subtly *taking* — taking the experience, taking the attainment, taking the identity of "one who has attained" — the *Kośa* would say you have not yet entered 遍處. You have a very large 勝處.

Misreading 2: "The last two (space, consciousness) are 'higher' than the first eight"

It's tempting to read a hierarchy: form is coarse, formless is refined, therefore 空遍處 and 識遍處 are "better." But the *Kośa* does not rank them this way. It says they are *different in kind*: different 自性 (formless absorption vs. non-greed), different objects (self-level aggregates vs. desire-realm visible form), different bodily requirements (any realm vs. human only). The first eight are, in a sense, *harder* in a specific way: they require you to take the *lowest*, most ordinary material — visible form in the desire realm, the world of groceries and traffic and other people's faces — and pervade it with the equanimity of the fourth dhyāna. The formless spheres work with subtler material, yes. But the first eight do the work *where it matters most*: in the realm where you actually live, with the senses you actually have.

Misreading 3: "遍處 means you stop perceiving differences"

"周遍觀察無有間隙" — pervasively observing without gap — does not mean *undifferentiated* observing. You still see blue as blue, earth as earth. The ten are *ten*, not one. The *Kośa* lists them separately, gives them separate objects, separate natures. What "without gap" means is that within the chosen sphere, there is no corner where the quality fails. Blue is *everywhere* in the field, and non-greed is *everywhere* in the field, and there is no seam between them where a different quality could sneak in. It is the *quality* that is gapless, not the *content* that is homogenized.

Misreading 4: "This is only for monastics in deep retreat"

The *Kośa* says 異生及聖皆能現起 — both worldlings and noble ones can manifest these attainments, through the power of teaching (教力). You do not need to be a stream-enterer. You do not need twenty years in a cave. You need 教 — instruction, method, the transmitted technique. And the first eight require a human body — which you have. The text is, in its dry Abhidharma way, *democratic*: this is available. The question is whether you will do the training, not whether you are the right *kind of being*.

That said — and this is where honesty requires nuance — the *Kośa* also says these are grounded in the 第四靜慮. The fourth dhyāna is not a casual state. It is the culmination of form-realm absorption, beyond joy, beyond pleasure, beyond the in-and-out movement of ordinary breathing. Reaching it requires sustained, serious practice. The *availability* is universal; the *effort required* is immense. The text does not pretend otherwise.

Misreading 5: "遍處 is the same as 'being present' or 'awareness'"

Contemporary spiritual language loves the word "awareness" — open, non-judgmental, present-moment awareness. This is not *wrong*, but it is not *precise*, and the imprecision matters. 遍處 in the *Kośa* is:

1. A specific *attainment* (定境), not a general capacity. You either have it or you don't, and having it requires specific prior attainments (解脫 → 勝處 → 遍處). 2. Grounded in a specific *dhyāna* (the fourth), not in any relaxed state of "being present." 3. Defined by a specific *quality* (無貪), not by the mere fact of noticing. 4. Directed at specific *objects* (the ten, each with its own domain), not at "whatever arises."

"Being present" is, at best, a very early preliminary. It is the moment you notice you've been scrolling for twenty minutes. 遍處 is what happens when that noticing has become so total, so gapless, so saturated with non-grasping, that there is no longer a "you" who *returns* to presence after being lost. The field was never lost. The pervasion never had a gap. That is a different order of achievement, and collapsing it into "just be aware" dishonors both the precision of the Abhidharma and the actual difficulty of the path.

Misreading 6: "遍處 is 'enlightenment' or 'nirvana'"

It is not. The *Kośa* is explicit: 異生 (worldlings, unenlightened beings) can attain 遍處. It is a 善根功德 — a meritorious achievement of the wholesome roots — but it is not 解脫 in the soteriological sense of final liberation. You can pervade blue without gap and still be bound by latent tendencies (隨眠). You can pervade consciousness without gap and still not have *seen through* consciousness. The noble path requires 遍知 (full knowledge, parijñā) — the insight that *cuts* — not merely 遍處 — the absorption that *fills*. They are complementary. Neither alone is sufficient. The person who has 遍處 without 遍知 is, in the *Kośa*'s framework, a very accomplished meditator who has not yet entered the stream. The person who has 遍知 without 遍處 may have genuine insight but lacks the total, gapless stability to *sustain* it under all conditions.

This is, perhaps, the most important clarification for a contemporary reader tempted to mistake a peak experience for the end of the path. The *Kośa* gives you the map. 遍處 is a magnificent achievement. It is not the destination. It is the training ground where the mind learns to be *total* — so that when insight finally cuts, it cuts *everywhere*, without gap, without a single hidden corner where a latent affliction can survive.

*The ten spheres, in the end, are a question posed to the practitioner's entire life: Is there anywhere in your experience where your freedom does not reach? Any corner you haven't looked at? Any quality of mind you've excluded from the field? The practice of 遍處 is the long, patient work of answering: no. Not anymore. The observation is total. The non-grasping is total. There is no gap. And in that no-gap, there is no room for the old machinery to operate — not because it has been destroyed (that is 遍知's work), but because it has been, quite simply, left without a foothold.*