大般涅槃經集解 69.26

69.26

Sengliang states: 'Seeking the body and seeking wealth': the body is internal life; wealth is external life. 'Committing karma' is performing good and evil. 'Increasing' is augmenting good and evil. 'Committing karma' is committing mental karma. 'Producing fruition' is committing physical and vocal karma, which is grasping. Craving and grasping are designations of lightness and heaviness: the lighter is the cause of the heavier, and grasping is the fruition. The sūtra says: 'Indulging in and approaching the five desires is called craving; internal and external covetous seeking is called grasping.' One knows this is light and heavy. 'Craving causes and conditions grasping, and grasping causes and conditions craving': craving and grasping have increase; next, because the cause is extinguished—since the causal nature has increase and decrease—it clarifies that they can be severed.