大般涅槃經義記 2.60

2.60

第二段中，「醫占王病應用乳」者，審病擬藥。無我之病非我不治，故云應用。「尋白王」下，正為說我，於中有三：一喻授真我。二「我於先」下，毀昔讚今，令人樂受。「我先斷乳是妄語」者，是毀昔也。自名向前斷乳之言以為妄語，亦可名前所斷乳藥以為妄語，是彼舊醫妄語藥故，彼說濫真所以毀之。「今若服者最能除病」，是讚今也。三「王今患」下，彰病顯治，令人信受。

In the second section: 'The physician examined the king's illness and found that he should use milk' means examining the illness to determine the medicine. The illness of non-self cannot be cured without the self; hence it says 'should use.' From 'He promptly addressed the king' downward directly expounds the self for him, within which there are three [points]: first, the parable of bestowing the true self. Second, from 'What I previously [said]' downward disparages the past and praises the present to lead people to joyfully accept it. 'That I previously stopped [the use of] milk was false speech' disparages the past. He calls his own earlier words stopping milk 'false speech,' or one may call the milk medicine previously stopped 'false speech,' because it was the false-speech medicine of that former physician; since his teaching confounded the genuine, it is disparaged. 'If you take it now, it will be best able to eliminate the illness' praises the present. Third, from 'The king now suffers' downward makes the illness manifest and reveals the remedy, leading people to accept it in faith.