大般涅槃經集解 61.78

61.78

Sengliang comments: "This illustrates the four fruits [of the śrāvaka]." Sengzong comments: "'Looking in the four directions' means that persons of the four fruits contemplate the equality of the truths. 'Standing still' means that because they practice swimming, they do not submerge. Small Vehicle adherents do not hope to advance further, hence they are like standing still. As for 'looking at the directions because they do not know the place of exit': one who truly knows the exit transforms beings in saṃsāra with skillful means, and this is why they know the exit; the two vehicles do not know the wisdom of the great beings, which is why it is said that they 'do not know the exit.'"