大般涅槃經義記 2.38

2.38

The above was the second part, extensively clarifying their failure to comprehend. From 'You...' downward concludes with a general reprimand. 'Self is the meaning of Buddha': properly grasping the self accords with the meaning of the Buddha. 'You monks, why do you say that one who conceives a self is conceited and haughty, and transmigrates through birth and death?' The monks earlier said that if there are those who do not cultivate suffering, impermanence, and so forth, they are called having the conception of a self; they should also have spoken of the conception of impermanence and so forth in contrast to the initial meaning of self, yet they merely say 'the conception of a self.' The monks earlier spoke of 'much negligence,' which is now called 'conceited and haughty.'