大般涅槃經集解 67.90

67.90

Sengliang states: 'Caused by the faculty of faith' means that faith is the cause of heat, making clear that there is no cause without fruit. 'None other than wisdom' means that destroying self-view must depend on wisdom, not on faith and the like. Regarding the sixteen aspects: dharmas do not go beyond the conditioned and the unconditioned; the conditioned has four aspects, and the unconditioned has four aspects. Existence and non-existence must have causes: the cause of the conditioned and defiled is origination (samudaya); the cause of the conditioned and undefiled is the path (mārga). These two each have four aspects, making sixteen. Baoliang states: Kāśyapa raises the example of Assaji and Punabbhasu lacking the faculty of faith, arguing that one should know faith is the dharma of heat. The Buddha states that it is merely the cause of heat, not heat itself.