大般涅槃經集解 61.1

61.1

Broadly distinguishing the meaning of transforming obstacles; broadly explaining the meaning of cultivating the body by adducing the simile of four snakes in a single basket; broadly explaining the meaning of cultivating precepts; broadly explaining the meaning of cultivating the mind; broadly explaining the meaning of cultivating wisdom; reiterating the meaning of cultivating body, precepts, mind, and wisdom; reiterating the meaning of transforming the heavy into the light and transforming the light into the heavy; Siṃhanāda reiterating six matters as objections claiming there is no need to cultivate the path; the Buddha adducing the simile of the seven persons in the Ganges to clarify that one must cultivate the path, broadly answering the previous objections; clarifying that because the buddhadhātu is permanent, it is not within the cause, just as the twelve links of dependent origination have no fixed abiding place.