金剛經纂要刊定記 2.16

2.16

As for "counteracting": prescribing medicine according to the illness has its meaning shown in the preface. As for grasping at self, there are two kinds: first, the grasping at self through the ordinary person's emotional calculation, which is grasping at the general characteristics of the five aggregates as an agent. Second, the non-Buddhist soul-self: within the aggregates or apart from the aggregates, large or small, an ethereal divine spirit whose operations are hard to conceive, all of which are calculated to be real; hence it is shown as grasping at self. Calculating all dharmas to have real substantial nature is called grasping at dharmas. Now, the Buddha expounded the Lesser Vehicle to eliminate the grasping at self. Here, expounding prajñā does this once more because the deep must include the shallow; therefore it primarily eliminates the grasping at dharmas, while concurrently clarifying the voidness of the person.