大般涅槃經集解 43.36

43.36

Sengliang notes: Among the seven sons, the one son who encounters illness exemplifies the ordinary person, while the six sons exemplify the six abidings. Compassion fundamentally takes suffering as its object; where suffering is heavy, compassion is heavy. From the first abiding, one has already departed from the three bad destinies; at the sixth abiding, one departs forever from humans and gods, so the Buddha lets go of [this aspect of] compassion. Zhixiu says: The second turn properly lists the emitting of light and the elimination of his physical suffering.