[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大般涅槃經集解](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763) › 55.42 # 大般涅槃經集解 55.42 大般涅槃經集解 55.42 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [55.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.55.42) 案僧亮曰：先觀果性，觀之麁也。寶亮曰：佛雖勸觀，但物情不解，故師子吼問，明一切眾生實不能測知如來心相，當云何得知？佛言當依二法：一者眼見如來身業；二聞佛所說教法。唯依此二事，得知如來心相。若見如來身業，有三十二相，在世運動，為為眾生？為為利養？若見說法，一向為物、不自為己，得知此人可尊可重，必非生死果報所為。若無此妙極來應，眾生云何得斯之身處世救苦？必應可信。果既如之，必有妙因，是以勸人依十二部經，約應佛觀如來心用，可得信知因果之性也。但文十別，事義自顯矣。 > Sengliang comments: First contemplating the nature of the fruit; this contemplation is coarse. Baoliang comments: Although the Buddha exhorted them to contemplate, ordinary understanding could not fathom it; hence Siṃhanāda asks, clarifying that all sentient beings truly cannot infer and know the mental characteristics of the Tathāgata, so how can they come to know them? The Buddha says they should rely on two dharmas: first, seeing the Tathāgata's bodily karma with the eye; second, hearing the teachings expounded by the Buddha. Only by relying on these two matters can one come to know the mental characteristics of the Tathāgata. If one sees the Tathāgata's bodily karma, possessed of the thirty-two marks, active in the world: is it for sentient beings, or is it for gain and sustenance? If one sees that his expounding of the Dharma is entirely for beings and never for himself, one knows that this person is worthy of honour and respect, and that it is definitely not done for the retribution of saṃsāra. If this ultimate wonder had not come to respond, how could sentient beings obtain such a body dwelling in the world to relieve suffering? It must surely be worthy of faith. Since the fruit is like this, there must be a wondrous cause; therefore, he exhorts people to rely on the twelve divisions of the canon and, with respect to the response Buddha, contemplate the mental functions of the Tathāgata, so that they can faithfully know the nature of cause and fruit. The text has ten distinctions, and the meaning of the matter is self-evident. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 55.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.55.41) - [Next: 55.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.55.43) - [Up: 55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.55) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763~en-mt.55.42) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.55.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.55.42) · Pramāṇa