大般涅槃經集解 65.28

65.28

Sengliang states: 'Extinguished not through knowledge' means not through supramundane, uncontaminated knowledge. From heat and summit up to the worldly supreme dharmas, these are mundane and uncontaminated, permanently severing the retribution of the three evil destinies. Baoliang states: If it is extinguished by knowledge, it is also named unconditioned [extinction] through knowledge. Since space contains no things, it may also be distinguished from space and also termed the unconditioned [phenomenon] of space. Within space there is nothing further to be calculated, so it is named the unconditioned [phenomenon] not due to calculation. Those who do not understand the intent, hearing that it does not exist, then think that according to the meaning there cannot be three; hearing that it exists, they say the three have distinct substances. Because they grasp at concrete forms, disputes thus arise.