大般涅槃經集解 20.92

20.92

Daosheng notes: "The meaning of the question is that if the Buddha alone is the Self and is difficult to see, ordinary persons are separated [from him] as heaven [from earth] and ought not to give rise to the notion of a self. Although the notion of a self is an illusion, it must certainly have a source. If it has a source, then [the Self] is not utterly remote. Why then say that only bodhisattvas of the ten abodes have a dim glimpse of it?" Sengzong notes: "Since the principle is deep and profound, its name should also be exalted. Why then do worldly people also fabricate the names of permanence and bliss themselves and transmit them in the world?" Zhixiu notes: "From here down is the fourth section. Because, although they heard the prior explanation, they did not yet fully understand, and thus took the ordinary person's possessing a self as an objection."