大般涅槃經集解 5.52

5.52

Daosheng comments: Harboring crookedness and envying the upright, one will certainly inflict harm on others, which is allegorized as the river. Holding fast to true understanding without regarding danger is allegorized as holding the child to cross over. Sengliang says: Having already attained the conditioned wisdom of cultivation while the unconditioned wisdom of cultivation is not yet attained, impermanence is difficult to cross, which is allegorized as the Ganges River. Tanji says: The river allegorizes the teachings of teachers of impermanence. Holding the child allegorizes holding fast to the understanding of the wisdom of reflection. Sengzong says: The river allegorizes the country of the Hīnayāna. According to the customs of foreign lands, if there are differing beliefs, they will not even drink water together from the same river. Here it allegorizes that one heading to another country must necessarily cross a river. And the great being who penetrates the Dharma, harboring the understanding of permanence and seeking buddhahood, should also expediently transform differing attachments.