大般涅槃經集解 57.8

57.8

案僧亮曰：為外人作通也。若不至則無縛者，亦應無生也。僧宗曰：物情多疑此理，是故致問。若中道義圓，則生解亦圓，以承此見性；若乖之一豪，則永遠正路。此五陰者，引陰證不相及義為譬，以成其執也。言此陰自滅，不至彼陰，二陰同縛尚不相至，豈況佛性而從縛得解。若有縛解，當知因中已有性也。

Sengliang comments: He provides a response on behalf of the outsider. If non-reaching means there is no bondage, there should also be no arising. Sengzong says: People's ordinary minds harbor much doubt regarding this principle; therefore, they raise this question. If the meaning of the Middle Way is complete, then the understanding that arises will also be complete, whereby one receives this and sees the nature; if one deviates from it by even a hair's breadth, one is forever distant from the correct path. As for 'these five aggregates,' the aggregates are cited to prove the meaning of non-reaching as an analogy, in order to establish their attachment. The claim is that since this aggregate perishes on its own and does not reach that aggregate, and two aggregates bound together still do not reach each other, how much less could the buddhadhātu attain liberation from bondage! If there is bondage and liberation, one must know that the nature already exists within the cause.