大般涅槃經集解 62.30

62.30

Sengliang notes: The eighth section praises the inconceivable virtues of a non-retrogressing bodhisattva. Regarding 'receiving one's final body', above it explained possessing the stage of afflictive nature and the stage of understanding, while here it explains the meaning of the final body, thereby merely citing both ends from beginning to end. Sengzong says: The eighth section explains that bodhisattvas on the higher stages are endowed with all superior virtues. Baoliang says: This praises the virtues of the practitioner of the path. People say that suffering is unbearable; here it says that if one can resolve one's mind to cultivate the path, even though one endures suffering for the sake of sentient beings, it is like the joy of the third dhyāna.