大般涅槃經集解 56.92

56.92

Sengliang states: He answers the first [objection]. The first fruit is accomplished from principle; it is bound to be attained and not lost, so it corresponds to the nature. What is not accomplished from principle is sometimes attained and sometimes lost, and is not the nature. Therefore, the fruits of humans and devas involve delusion and do not exist from the nature; the fruit of buddhahood is without delusion, precisely because it exists from the nature. This answers the first objection. Baoliang states: The states of humans and devas are unfixed, so one might say they lack the nature; the buddhadhātu is not like this. Just as the karma of humans and devas halts only upon reaching the Buddha, without stopping midway, how could there be no direct cause?