阿彌陀經疏 1.31

1.31

我聞者，我有三種：一、見；二、慢；三、名字。阿難於結集時已是無學人，則見慢俱盡，但為傳化故順世間名字稱我也。聞者，《大論》云：耳根不壞，聲在可聞處，因緣和合作意欲聞即聞也。然則理本無聞，順世稱聞爾。

'Have I heard': there are three kinds of 'I'—first, of wrong view; second, of conceit; third, of nominal designation. At the time of the council, Ānanda was already an *aśaikṣa* (arhat), so wrong view and conceit were both extinguished; it was only for the sake of transmission and conversion that he conformed to worldly nominal designations and said 'I'. Regarding 'heard': the *Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa* says: 'When the ear faculty is undamaged, sound is in a place where it can be heard, and causes and conditions combine, when there is attention and the desire to hear, then there is hearing.' However, in principle there is fundamentally no hearing; it is merely conforming to worldly convention to call it hearing.