大般涅槃經義記 5.227

5.227

自下第三破遣更轉無上之相，於中有三：一遣更轉、二遣無上、三總結呵。就初段中，云何遣更？若是一法，重復宣說可名為更，今昔全別，何得言更？於中文有八番辯異：一明語別，語猶教也，先舉，次列，後辯可知；二隨欲別，昔為求小，今為求大；三隨根別，昔為中根，今為上根，下根凡夫不堪聞諦，故不為之；四起行別；五得益別；六請主別；七所說別；八遠近別，昔出音聲聞於梵天，今出音聲聞于二十恒沙世界。

From here below, the third [section] refutes and dispels the mark of turning the unsurpassable [wheel] anew, within which there are three parts: first, dispelling 'turning anew'; second, dispelling 'unsurpassable'; third, a general concluding scolding. In the first section, how is 'anew' dispelled? If it were one single teaching expounded repeatedly, it could be called 'anew'; but what was taught in the past and what is taught now are entirely different, so how could one say 'anew'? Within this, the text has eight rounds distinguishing the differences: first, explaining the difference in words—'words' being equivalent to teaching—which are first raised, then listed, and then analyzed, as is readily understood; second, the difference according to inclinations: in the past it was for those seeking the small, while now it is for those seeking the great; third, the difference according to faculties: in the past it was for middling faculties, while now it is for superior faculties, since ordinary people of inferior faculties cannot bear to hear the truths and therefore [the Buddha] did not preach for them; fourth, the difference in the practice aroused; fifth, the difference in the benefit obtained; sixth, the difference in the requester; seventh, the difference in what is preached; eighth, the difference in distance: in the past the sound produced was heard up to the Brahmā heaven, whereas now the sound produced is heard across worlds [as numerous as] the sands of twenty Ganges rivers.