大般涅槃經集解 57.28

57.28

Sengliang comments: When the two hands join together, no other dharma comes to join them: joining as one is the effect, the two hands are the cause, and apart from the hands there is no joining; name-and-form and sentient beings are also like this. Baoliang says: If name-and-form were different from sentient beings, one could say they bind; now name-and-form and bondage are one substance, just as the eye does not see itself—how can name-and-form bind name-and-form? The Buddha answers: because the two hands join together, there is no separate dharma of joining; the hands themselves are the joining; therefore, name-and-form itself is the bondage.