大般涅槃經集解 54.207

54.207

案僧亮曰：凡夫不見，所以令受苦也。而見有深淺，苦滅不同。不見佛性者，中道是佛性，二乘偏見，不見中道也。僧宗曰：第八翻，謂四種人淺深觀之，唯上上觀乃窮，故知深也。寶亮曰：第八意，次明觀十二緣智階級定相。向言十二因緣理深，無知無見，唯佛能窮鑒其始終。今故次明降佛以還亦得觀此理，但觀而未達，故發解有深淺，階級有四異，下智得聲聞道、中智得緣覺道、上智得住十住地、唯上上智者見因緣窮故成無上道。此言得聲聞道，恐非是實行者。若寄言誘愚，故宜無嫌也。

Sengliang comments: Ordinary beings do not see it, and this causes them to undergo suffering. Yet seeing has depth and shallowness, so the cessation of suffering differs. Regarding not seeing the buddhadhātu: the Middle Way is the buddhadhātu, but the two vehicles have one-sided views and do not see the Middle Way. / Sengzong says: In the eighth turn, it means that four kinds of people contemplate it with varying degrees of shallowness and depth; only the supreme contemplation exhausts it, showing that it is profound. / Baoliang says: The eighth point next explains the fixed characteristics of the stages in the cognition that contemplates the twelve conditioning links. Above it was said that the principle of the twelve conditioning links is profound, beyond knowing and seeing, and only the Buddha can exhaustively perceive its beginning and end. Now it is next explained that those below the Buddha may also come to contemplate this principle; but contemplating it without yet having mastered it, the understanding they give rise to has depth and shallowness, with four different stages: inferior cognition attains the śrāvaka path, middling cognition attains the pratyekabuddha path, superior cognition attains dwelling in the stage of the ten abodes, and only supreme cognition exhaustively sees the conditioning links, thereby completing the unsurpassed path. Saying here that one attains the śrāvaka path is likely not referring to the actual practice. If words are used provisionally to entice the foolish, there should be no objection.