大般涅槃經集解 46.64

46.64

Sengzong says: Causes and conditions mean serving as the other for another. Although a cause does not give birth to itself, it possesses the function of giving birth to another. This answers the fourth and third questions. Birth is giving birth to another; non-birth is the undefiled. Later this is answered separately. Sengzong says: The dispelling becomes increasingly refined. As one enters the ultimate truth, because the ordinary mind becomes bewildered and stifled, he speaks of having causes and conditions. Baoliang says: The preceding six lines show indeterminacy; this seventh line shows that when conditions combine, there is birth, and when they do not combine, there is no birth.