大般涅槃經集解 57.14

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案僧宗曰：非肉眼見者，其色細妙，天眼乃見耳。三種食者，思食即過去業也。此中有冷煖觸成身。意地四心及五識諸心相連，無段食也。中陰二種，善與惡者，向明以前陰為蠟、中陰為泥，今復明從中陰向受生處也。寶亮曰：中陰報妙，唯天眼識所覩，亦無段食。而自資故，隨其用業善惡之所感、心用之麁細，後父母和會，各隨業覓生。以成己身，起三煩惱交會纏著，中陰陰壞，後陰續起，如印壞之文成。

Sengzong comments: 'Not visible to the fleshy eye' means that its form is subtle and fine, visible only to the divine eye. The 'three kinds of food' means that the food of volition is past karma. Here, cold and warm touch constitute the body. The four mental states of the mental plane and the manifold states of the five consciousnesses are continuous, lacking chunked food. The intermediate state is of two kinds, wholesome and unwholesome: earlier it explained that the prior aggregates are wax and the intermediate state is mud; now it further explains proceeding from the intermediate state toward the place of taking birth. Baoliang says: The retribution of the intermediate state is subtle, seen only by the divine eye consciousness, and it also lacks chunked food. Sustaining itself naturally, it responds to the wholesome or unwholesome nature of the karma it employs and the coarse or subtle operation of mind; later, when the father and mother unite, each seeks rebirth according to karma. To form its own body, it arouses three afflictions and becomes entangled and attached; the intermediate aggregate is destroyed and the subsequent aggregate arises continuously, just as when the seal is destroyed, the impression is formed.