大般涅槃經集解 19.96

19.96

Sengliang states: To calculate a fruit without a cause—the matter is just like this. Sengzong states: Only when a child is in the womb is it called pregnancy, and the final term is inevitably in ten months. If one attains the undefiled state of the ten stages, that may be compared to pregnancy. Now, drifting ordinary persons are distant from the fruit; without faithful goodness, to speak of having the fruit is identical to thinking of giving birth to a son when not pregnant at all. Baoliang states: The three verses below use metaphors to conclude the difficulty of taking the future three refuges. The remaining two verses further request the exposition of the true refuge.