大般涅槃經集解 60.16

60.16

案僧亮曰：明結性非滅，智不能滅。若以鹹能令淡，譬智能滅結也，是義不然。何故者？鹹淡不俱。鹹生之時，淡已過去也。過去自滅，非鹹滅也。若法無滅，云何智慧強令滅者，若過去法滅非自滅者，云何強令耶；云何而言能滅惑；他法者，為外家生，意通上強難也。謂智明力強、惑闇性弱，智能滅惑者，亦不然。何者？二法皆生時即滅，生死強弱何能滅他也。

Sengliang comments: This clarifies that because the nature of defilements is not cessation, wisdom cannot extinguish them. If one takes saltiness being able to make the bland salty as a metaphor for wisdom being able to extinguish defilements, this meaning is not so. Why? Saltiness and blandness do not coexist. When saltiness arises, blandness has already passed away. The past ceases of itself, not extinguished by saltiness. If dharmas have no cessation, how could wisdom forcibly make them cease? If the cessation of past dharmas were not self-cessation, how could it be forced? How can one say it extinguishes delusion? As for 'other dharmas', this is raised by an opponent to resolve the objection about forcing above. They claim that because the power of the light of wisdom is strong and the nature of the darkness of delusion is weak, wisdom can extinguish delusion; but this is also not so. Why? Both dharmas cease as soon as they arise; in arising and perishing, how could strength and weakness extinguish another?