大般涅槃經集解 56.36

English (machine translation) 56.36

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56.36

Sengliang comments: This clarifies that the buddhadhātu is permanent. Sentient beings utilize it just as the space within the body enables growth; this is the functioning of space. Space does not belong to the three periods of time; because sentient beings have the element of space, there is the functioning of space. The buddhadhātu also does not belong to the three periods of time, yet sentient beings possess it. Because understanding and delusion obstruct one another, and due to this obstruction, delusion must be extinguished—only when delusion is extinguished is it functioning—it is therefore described as not yet existing.

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