大般涅槃經集解 20.92

20.92

案道生曰：問意若唯佛是我而難見者，凡夫天隔，不應生於我想。我想雖惑，要必有由。若有由者，便非懸絕。云何而言十住菩薩乃髣髴耶？僧宗曰：理既深玄，名亦應貴，云何世人亦復自造常樂之名傳之於世耶？智秀曰：此下第四段。雖聞上說，猶未了故，凡夫有我，以為難也。

Daosheng notes: "The meaning of the question is that if the Buddha alone is the Self and is difficult to see, ordinary persons are separated [from him] as heaven [from earth] and ought not to give rise to the notion of a self. Although the notion of a self is an illusion, it must certainly have a source. If it has a source, then [the Self] is not utterly remote. Why then say that only bodhisattvas of the ten abodes have a dim glimpse of it?" Sengzong notes: "Since the principle is deep and profound, its name should also be exalted. Why then do worldly people also fabricate the names of permanence and bliss themselves and transmit them in the world?" Zhixiu notes: "From here down is the fourth section. Because, although they heard the prior explanation, they did not yet fully understand, and thus took the ordinary person's possessing a self as an objection."