大般涅槃經集解 68.12

68.12

案僧亮曰：行已無行，受身中利鈍差別。寶亮曰：行般涅槃者，次解第三人。但受初禪正生者，根有三品利鈍之殊，此人最鈍，窮生中行道，然後得果，名行般涅槃也。道慧記曰：或更二身者，更出第三行涅槃中不同人也。如論家但云初禪中有三人，此言或二身四身，非上行，是則不但初禪也。

Sengliang states: 'With effort' and 'without effort' are distinctions of sharp and dull faculties within receiving a body. Baoliang states: 'One who attains nirvāṇa with effort' explains the third person next. Among those who merely receive primary birth in the first dhyāna, their faculties have the threefold distinction of sharp and dull; this person is the dullest, cultivating the path through their entire lifespan and only then attaining the fruit; hence it is called 'attaining nirvāṇa with effort'. The Notes of Daohui say: 'Or through two further bodies' additionally presents different persons within the third [category of] attaining nirvāṇa through practice. As the treatise masters merely say there are three persons in the first dhyāna, saying here 'perhaps two bodies or four bodies' and 'not flowing upward' means that it is not only in the first dhyāna.