大般涅槃經集解 56.46

56.46

Sengliang comments: Where sweetness predominates, it is milk; where sourness predominates, it is curd. If at the time of milk there is already curd, the sour taste is already complete. The sourness would illuminate itself; why would it need yeast and warmth to illuminate it? Baoliang comments: Previously, it was claimed that because it lacked an illuminating cause, it was milk and not curd. If curd already existed beforehand, it would itself be the illuminating cause; why would it still need to be illuminated? Below, he extensively challenges this doctrine.