大般涅槃經集解 25.24

25.24

Sengliang states: As for the mango fruit, fruit can produce fruit, which is an analogy for good being able to produce good. As for the method of planting fruit, if one cracks the stone and removes the pulp, it is difficult to grow; if the stone is whole with the pulp, it easily grows. A person committing grave sins is compared to eating the flesh of the fruit. Spitting the stone onto the ground: although the stone is difficult to grow, it can still serve as a seed for fruit, clarifying that although one has committed grave sins, there is still subtle goodness that can serve as a wholesome seed. Cracking it and tasting it: because of greed for sweetness, the fruit's seed is destroyed, which is an analogy for how, because of deep foolishness, one severs the subtle kuśalamūla. From "regret arises in the mind" downward, it clarifies that the seed of the fruit is already severed; although one wishes to nurse it, the fruit cannot grow, which is an analogy for: when goodness is severed without repentance, how could it grow? Not being called an icchantika: it is because of not repenting that one is called an icchantika; it is not because of repenting that one is called an icchantika. Fayao states: This is an analogy for the class of unrepentant icchantikas. First receiving the precepts is eating the fruit; breaking the precepts is spitting out the stone.