大般涅槃經集解 61.74

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Sengliang comments: "The second emerges briefly and submerges again. 'Not practicing swimming' means that they fundamentally did not cultivate morality, concentration, and wisdom." Sengzong comments: "Although they practice contemplating the four applications of mindfulness, their power of wisdom is not yet deep, and this person still regresses. That they 'submerge and emerge again' means that taking their practice of contemplation and seeing of principle and meaning as 'emerging,' it cannot yet be definitively named, which is why it is said that having emerged, they submerge again. Their 'emerging because their power is great' means that having contemplated impermanence, suffering, and so forth, in comparison to external ordinary beings, it is a great power. 'Not practicing swimming' is because the power of their contemplation is shallow."