大般涅槃經集解 57.1

57.1

Discerning the meaning of bondage and liberation; discerning the continuity of earlier and later five aggregates using the simile of the wax seal; name-and-form binding sentient beings and sentient beings binding name-and-form; clarifying that afflictions and residual impressions serve mutually as cause and effect; extensively discerning the eight similes, namely reverse similes, present similes, and so forth; extensively explaining the meaning of the simile of the lamp as the noble path; explaining how a srotāpanna still maintains the precepts even if born in an evil land; citing the lion of the Fragrant Mountain as a simile; extensively discerning that the characteristics of morality, samādhi, and prajñā are unattainable; explaining the sixteen evil disciplines; explaining that the meaning of arising and the meaning of nirvāṇa are both unarising and unceasing; explaining the meaning that the buddhadhātu is neither one nor two.