大般涅槃經集解 29.16

29.16

Sengliang comments: The young boy compares to a beginner bodhisattva who does not see suffering deeply and has not entirely forgotten birth, just like taking the fruit and then relinquishing it; if both wisdom and practice were deep, he would neither take nor relinquish. Sengzong comments: A bodhisattva belongs to a lineage of exalted practice, compared to a brahmin's son. Suffering in the hells for vast kalpas, he was cut off from the food of humans and devas. Excrement compares to the aggregate body. The fruit compares to birth. The emotion of rejoicing in birth compares to wishing to take it. The fault of birth has been spoken by the noble ones, compared to the wise one scolding him. Knowing the peril of craving birth compares to feeling ashamed and remorseful. For the sake of taking birth in heaven to enjoy the five desires, compares to washing clean. In the end having no love for it compares to discarding it again. Baoliang comments: This second [section] uses the boy as a parable for the lesser bodhisattva, contrasted with the great bodhisattva.