大般涅槃經義記 2.25

2.25

In the fifth request, first an analogy is established, next drawing upon it the Dharma is revealed, and afterward they request the Buddha to remain. Within the analogy there are two parts: first, a simile for their own confusion and delusion; second, from "At that time there is an excellent physician who gives medicine" onward, a simile for the Buddha's ability to cure. In the former, the initial statement "Just as an intoxicated person" raises the case of the analogy: the intoxicated person is a simile for oneself; the ground of ignorance and the false sense faculties and sense objects can generate inverted conceptions, which are compared to liquor; the deluded mind giving rise to falsity is described as being drunk. Below, the faults of drunkenness are revealed; there are three kinds of faults: first, an analogy for giving rise to afflictions; second, from "Speech" onward, an analogy clarifying the creation of karma; third, from "Lying in feces and filth" onward, an analogy clarifying the undergoing of suffering. In giving rise to afflictions, "Without self-awareness, not recognizing relatives and strangers, mother and daughter, sister and sister" is an analogy for one's own delusion. Not knowing that one's own essence, the nature of the tathāgatagarbha, is fundamentally tranquil and unconditioned is called "not being self-aware"; not knowing that the deluded mind directly arises out of confusion concerning the real is called "not recognizing relatives"; not knowing that deluded objects arise from the deluded mind is called "not recognizing strangers". Not recognizing these is therefore called "delusion". "Dazed and confused, wanton and disorderly" is an analogy for giving rise to inverted conceptions. "Conceptions" refers to the eight false conceptions, as stated in the Bodhisattvabhūmi. In the analogy for creating karma, speech is verbal karma, and negligence is physical karma; undergoing suffering can be understood.