大般涅槃經集解 46.62

46.62

Daosheng says: Previously he already set aside birth; now he sets aside non-birth. Sengliang says: If a dharma lacks the characteristic of birth, that likewise cannot be stated definitively. These six lines comprehensively answer the latter two propositions. Sengzong says: Birth originally stands in contrast to non-birth; since birth is ungraspable, how could non-birth be graspable? Baoliang says: One also cannot state definitively that if there were no separate characteristic of birth outside the dharma, this would cause the substance of the dharma to be incapable of being born.