大般涅槃經集解 57.1

57.1

辨縛解義　辨前後五陰相續以蠟印為譬　名色繫縛眾生眾生繫縛名色　明煩惱與習手為因果　廣辨八喻謂逆喻現喻等　廣釋燈譬聖道義　釋須陀洹雖生惡國猶自持戒　引香山師子為譬　廣辯戒定慧相不可得　釋十六惡律儀　釋生義與涅槃義皆不生不滅　釋佛性非一非二義

Discerning the meaning of bondage and liberation; discerning the continuity of earlier and later five aggregates using the simile of the wax seal; name-and-form binding sentient beings and sentient beings binding name-and-form; clarifying that afflictions and residual impressions serve mutually as cause and effect; extensively discerning the eight similes, namely reverse similes, present similes, and so forth; extensively explaining the meaning of the simile of the lamp as the noble path; explaining how a srotāpanna still maintains the precepts even if born in an evil land; citing the lion of the Fragrant Mountain as a simile; extensively discerning that the characteristics of morality, samādhi, and prajñā are unattainable; explaining the sixteen evil disciplines; explaining that the meaning of arising and the meaning of nirvāṇa are both unarising and unceasing; explaining the meaning that the buddhadhātu is neither one nor two.