大般涅槃經集解 46.90

46.90

案僧亮曰：未生時已有生性者，作惡是橫，必招橫果。未生之已有生理，善性不橫，不招橫果。無漏，無生理也，答上無漏不生句也。僧宗曰：上言何以不生滅諦無漏，今明滅諦不可為相所生，乃可了因所感耳。寶亮曰：通釋第三句，以下四句難也。

Sengliang says: Having the nature of birth before being born means that committing evil is perverse and will inevitably bring about perverse retribution. The principle of birth already exists before being born; the nature of goodness is not perverse and does not bring about perverse retribution. The undefiled has no principle of birth; this answers the earlier proposition that the undefiled is unborn. Sengzong says: Above it asked why the truth of cessation and the undefiled are not born; now it clarifies that the truth of cessation cannot be born by characteristics, but can only be realized through an illuminating cause. Baoliang says: This comprehensively explains the third proposition and the objections of the following four propositions.