大般涅槃經集解 54.71

54.71

Sengliang comments: Designating the stages as practice, all are named after understanding the principle; all are wisdom. The merit of ordinary beings who grasp at signs cannot cross over birth and death, and thus is not merit, and so on up to not being prajñā. Sengzong comments: Below there are three layers of explanation. This first one takes abiding below as merit, and the higher abodes as wisdom. Baoliang comments: The first is that from the first stage to the tenth stage, taking the correct contemplation of unpolluted, empty understanding that forgets marks within conditions as the adornment of wisdom, and taking the contemplative knowledge of the tenth stage as the adornment of merit. These are both essential, and this distinction is drawn from their respective senses.