金剛般若波羅蜜經註解 1.152

1.152

The meaning of this text arises from the previous mention of giving treasures to obtain merit. Previously, giving the seven treasures of boundless trichiliocosms, though the merit obtained is great, is yet not separate from [conditioned] nature; thus it is an afflicted, defiled cause of greed and the like, being a conditioned retribution of merit. Here, then, worlds and motes of dust are used as a metaphor. Dust and worlds are insentient objects that do not give rise to the afflicted, defiled causes of greed and the like; as such, conditioned retributions of merit do not even measure up to the insentience of dust and worlds, so how could upholding and expounding this sūtra—which is the cause of being far removed from afflictions and able to attain bodhi—fail to surpass them?