大般涅槃經義記 5.286

5.286

前中且說十二緣法，以論開合。先廣論之，「如一因緣為眾生」下舉彼因緣類顯無量。廣中，或一，總十二緣唯一有為；或分為二，唯因與果。過去世中無明與行，現在世中愛、取及有是其因分，現在識等未來生死是其果分；或說為三，煩惱、業、苦，無明、愛、取是煩惱道，行有二分是其業道，餘因緣分是其苦道。

Within the former, it provisionally speaks of the twelve links of dependent origination to discuss expanding and condensing. First it discusses them extensively; from "Just as for the sake of sentient beings one conditioned link..." downward, it adduces those conditioned links to analogously reveal the immeasurables. In the extensive discussion: it may be one—the twelve links of dependent origination as a whole are solely the conditioned; or it may be divided into two—solely cause and effect: in the past lifetime, ignorance and karmic formations, and in the present lifetime, craving, grasping, and becoming, are the causal part; consciousness and the rest in the present, along with birth-and-death in the future, are the fruitional part. Or they may be spoken of as three—afflictions, karma, and suffering: ignorance, craving, and grasping are the path of afflictions; the two parts of karmic formations and becoming are the path of karma; the remaining parts of the conditioned links are the path of suffering.