大般涅槃經集解 67.72

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Sengliang states: Increasing goodness applies to the third person; increasing evil applies to the second. 'Considering oneself superior among fellow practitioners' means taking what accords with one's own view as being superior among people. Baoliang states: Having finished explaining the five matters, he first clarifies the fault of the second person, and then reveals the virtue of the third person. 'One increases good dharmas' explains the third person. 'One increases evil dharmas' explains the second person. The second person cannot seek closeness to good spiritual friends, and therefore turns around to create evil and enter birth-and-death, becoming one who emerges briefly and submerges again. If this person deeply knows and sees his own incompleteness in practice, he then strives to advance and becomes the third person who stays.