大般涅槃經集解 22.62

22.62

案僧亮曰：無目者，謂但見現在，不見未來也。不見羅漢道者，羅漢能斷未生，而此人不見也。寶亮曰：譬如王使者，乃應出是羅漢似闡提，而但將菩薩來對，明此羅漢堅信大乘，一向撥《法華》以前經，云非實而是方便。言中乃以闡提也。王使譬菩薩也。善談論者，明菩薩四辨也。奉命他國者，捨法身之地，應生死也。寧喪身命終不匿王說者，乃可為外道所弊，終不唱佛是無常也。譬如蓮華者，喻行人也。既協信作罪，若見涅槃日者，其信心必增明也。

Sengliang notes: 'Eyeless' means seeing only the present and not seeing the future. 'Not seeing the path of the arhat': an arhat can cut off what has not yet arisen, but this person does not see it. Baoliang says: 'For example, like a king's envoy': here it should have brought out that this arhat resembles an icchantika, but it merely matches him against a bodhisattva, clarifying that this arhat firmly believes in the Mahāyāna and entirely dismisses the sūtras prior to the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra, saying they are not real but upāya. In the words it even takes him as an icchantika. The king's envoy represents the bodhisattva. 'Skilled in discourse' clarifies the bodhisattva's four unimpeded knowledges. 'Receiving orders to go to another country' means relinquishing the ground of the dharmakāya to respond to saṃsāra. 'Rather losing body and life than concealing the king's words' means he might be abused by non-Buddhists, yet will never proclaim that the Buddha is impermanent. 'Just as a lotus flower' is a metaphor for the practitioner: having committed transgressions accompanied by faith, if he sees the sun of nirvāṇa, his mind of faith will certainly increase in clarity.