金剛經纂要刊定記 1.52

1.52

Regarding 'attachment to self': conceiving of a master or controller in the general characteristics of the five aggregates is called attachment to self. If one searches into each and every one, and in the nature of form and the rest sees no self-entity, this is called emptiness of self. If one sees the phenomena of the five aggregates as truly possessing an intrinsic nature, this is called attachment to phenomena. If one realizes that the five aggregates are like an illusion, like a phantom, arising from conditions without intrinsic nature, this is called emptiness of phenomena. 'Having eliminated' means it has already ended; because persons of the Hīnayāna, hearing the teaching of the dependent origination of arising and ceasing, do not grasp at a self, it says 'having eliminated attachment to self.' 'Not having reached' means that, because they have not yet heard the teaching of dependent origination without intrinsic nature and still conceive of the aggregate-phenomena as real, it says 'not having reached the emptiness of phenomena.' If fully expressed, it should say: 'Having eliminated attachment to self and having reached the emptiness of self; not having reached the emptiness of phenomena and not having eliminated attachment to phenomena.' Here, because 'attachment' is placed above and 'emptiness' below by stylistic ellipsis, entering 'having eliminated attachment to self' is precisely having reached the emptiness of self, and 'not having reached the emptiness of phenomena' is precisely not having eliminated attachment to phenomena.