大般涅槃經集解 9.26

9.26

案僧亮曰：白衣毀法尚加苦治，況出家耶？僧宗曰：聖人與奪，利益有時，未必待化；但迦葉所舉之事，實是化耳。明駿案：此下佛答有五階。第一拂迹，顯童子是化；第二明王法與佛法曲異，以證不殺也；第三以小況大，若放一光尚與無畏，況當有殺也；第四舉三譬，明未後行法，四眾能治破法罪人，得福無量；第五雙結二旨，若不治者得無量罪，能如法治是我弟子也。

Sengliang comments: If laypeople who destroy the Dharma are subjected to painful punishment, how much more so the renunciants? Sengzong comments: The giving and taking of the sages and their benefiting of beings have their proper times, not necessarily waiting for transformation; but the matter Kāśyapa raised was actually an apparition. Mingjun comments: From here below, the Buddha’s reply has five steps: first, brushing away traces, revealing that the boy was an apparition; second, clarifying that royal law and the Buddha’s Dharma are distinct in their particulars, thereby proving non-killing; third, using the small to illustrate the great: if releasing a single ray of light already confers fearlessness, how could there be killing?; fourth, raising three parables to clarify that when practicing the Dharma in later times, the four assemblies are able to punish wrongdoers who destroy the Dharma and obtain immeasurable merit; fifth, concluding both purports together: if one does not punish them, one incurs immeasurable guilt, but one who can punish according to the Dharma is my disciple.