大般涅槃經集解 70.35

70.35

Sengliang states: "'The meaning of such words' refers to the meaning of cause being two and fruition being one. 'I now do not understand' means he understood [the meaning], but had not yet understood the simile. Having expounded the four noble truths, they are also two and also one; explaining the causes and fruitions of all dharmas, cause and fruition have no fixed nature: clinging to characteristics they are two, but the three characteristics are one." Baoliang states: "His mind having submitted, he returned to requesting that the Buddha preach the Dharma. The Buddha directly explained that the four truths are both two and one; he immediately comprehended and said: 'Ordinary beings see existence, suffering from this and that, and therefore speak of two; the sage observes suffering as empty, without the difference between this and that. Knowing that oneness is not one, the mind accords with equanimity.'"