大般涅槃經集解 57.32

57.32

Sengliang comments: Name-and-form is of three kinds: being a cause, being an effect, and being neither cause nor effect. Affliction and habitual propensity serve mutually as cause and effect, taking the aggregate of afflictions as the effect. Buddhadhātu and sentient beings are also name-and-form, yet neither cause nor effect. Baoliang says: An arhat has already completely severed the bondage of causes; although possessing name-and-form, it is not a cause of birth-and-death. It is merely that the span of karmic retribution is exhausted, not something eliminated by the counteractive path.