大般涅槃經集解 20.116

20.116

案僧亮曰：始終皆作無我化也。法瑤曰：經教所明都無彼人所計之我，況菩薩邊聞所計我耶？歷舉四王求索不得刀者，明千聖雖異，而經教是同；眾生萬品，而計我斯一也。次第四王者，千聖相繼第四佛也。

Sengliang notes: "From beginning to end, they always conducted the transformation of selflessness." Fayao notes: "What the scriptures and teachings explain is entirely devoid of the self conceived by that person, how much less could the conceived self be heard from a bodhisattva? The sequential enumeration of four kings seeking and failing to find the knife clarifies that although the thousand sages are different, their scriptures and teachings are identical; although sentient beings are of ten thousand varieties, their conceiving of a self is one and the same. The sequence of four kings represents the fourth Buddha in the succession of the thousand sages."