大般涅槃經集解 36.71

36.71

Sengliang states: This answers the fifth objection. Although the name 'immeasurable' is the same, internal and external practices differ, and shallow and deep are greatly distinct; they should not be one. That the initial-stage bodhisattva who cannot attain the samādhi of mastery is not taking the immeasurable as object means that he gives immeasurable bliss to his parents, not taking immeasurable sentient beings as his object. Sengzong states: This answers the fifth objection. It says that taking immeasurable sentient beings as the object has the distinction of four minds; it does not say that the essence of mind is universally boundless; one must not take literal expression to form an objection. Baoliang states: This answers the fifth objection. Although the names are the same, yet the meaning has four stages, all called immeasurable; they cannot be made into one.