金剛般若經贊述 1.162

1.162

The commentary says: In this second, explanatory [section], it first clarifies the absence of a self, and next clarifies the four kinds of absence of marks of phenomena. The intention here is that in the final five hundred years, there are bodhisattvas who thoroughly comprehend that the arising, decay, cessation, and vanishing of the body are originally devoid of a self; furthermore, they comprehend that categories such as enemies and friends, right and wrong, originally stem from one's own mind and possess no fixed reality. Having heard the principle of the two emptinesses of persons and phenomena, and having accumulated merit such as upholding precepts, they are therefore known by the Tathāgata with the Buddha's wisdom and seen with his eye. Grasping the distinctions of the five aggregates across the three times as a whole, taking each individual aggregate to be a self—deludedly apprehending in this way is called the mark of a self. Seeing the body as continuing without interruption, asserting that it proceeds from a past self to the present, is called the mark of a sentient being. Seeing the life-faculty of a single present retribution as uninterrupted is called a living soul (jīva). Seeing that after the life-faculty is cut off, one is born again into the other six destinies in the future, is called an enduring entity (poṣa); here "person" (pudgala) replaces "living soul" (jīva).