大般涅槃經集解 29.16

29.16

案僧亮曰：幼稚童子，譬始業菩薩見苦不深，未全忘生，如取菓已捨；若智行俱深，則不取不捨也。僧宗曰：菩薩是高行之族，以譬婆羅門子。曠劫為地獄所苦，絕人天食也。糞譬陰身。菓譬生也。欣生之情，譬欲取也。生之為過，聖之所說，譬智訶也。知貪生之患，譬𧹞然有愧也。為生天中有五欲樂，譬淨洗也。終不愛者，譬還棄也。寶亮曰：此第二，以童子譬小菩薩，與大菩薩對也。

Sengliang comments: The young boy compares to a beginner bodhisattva who does not see suffering deeply and has not entirely forgotten birth, just like taking the fruit and then relinquishing it; if both wisdom and practice were deep, he would neither take nor relinquish. Sengzong comments: A bodhisattva belongs to a lineage of exalted practice, compared to a brahmin's son. Suffering in the hells for vast kalpas, he was cut off from the food of humans and devas. Excrement compares to the aggregate body. The fruit compares to birth. The emotion of rejoicing in birth compares to wishing to take it. The fault of birth has been spoken by the noble ones, compared to the wise one scolding him. Knowing the peril of craving birth compares to feeling ashamed and remorseful. For the sake of taking birth in heaven to enjoy the five desires, compares to washing clean. In the end having no love for it compares to discarding it again. Baoliang comments: This second [section] uses the boy as a parable for the lesser bodhisattva, contrasted with the great bodhisattva.