大般涅槃經集解 32.36

32.36

Daosheng notes: "Taking mirages to be real when they are not real is the conventional truth; understanding their unreality is the ultimate truth." Sengliang says: "The real meaning is like suffering and origin; how could it sever delusion?" Sengzong says: "The second layer. Above, understanding and delusion were clarified through combination with the aggregates; now, saying that the objects have the unreal and the real refers to the principle of the four truths. Suffering is truly suffering and cannot be made into bliss; origin, cessation, and the path are all like this. Conventional truth takes the sense of doubly unreal, which is genuinely unobtainable. Knowing a self and sentient beings brings out unreal things. Furthermore, mentioning the aggregates, elements, and sense bases, as slight dissimilarities, these are conditionally produced dharmas. If one conceives of them as real, in principle they are unobtainable; how does this differ from the metaphor of the wheel and the like?" Baoliang says: "This second layer explains the meaning in terms of the unreal and the real. Being falsely existent, it is the conventional truth; matching the principle, it is the ultimate truth."