大般涅槃經集解 9.42

9.42

Baoliang comments: Intending to speak of the fruit, he uses the fruit to question the cause: if the present fruit is not long, how could the past cause have been equal? Sengzong comments: Although he takes the fruit to trace the cause, the matter lies in challenging the fruit, which precisely answers the question regarding the fruit of long life. Zhixiu comments: It is still an objection to the cause. If the cause is definitely real, the principle calls forth a permanent fruit, and he should not enter nirvāṇa. Now, verifying the cause by the fruit, the cause is not real. Inferring from this, we know it is still an objection to the cause, not yet an answer regarding the fruit. There are two turns: first, the objection; second, the answer. Within the objection there are three steps: first, directly asserting that it should not be the purport of long life; second, raising a simile; third, joining the simile and concluding the objection. This is the first: intending to raise an objection, he first receives the purport.