大般涅槃經義記 2.50

2.50

Below, it instructs and exhorts the monks based on the preceding analogies, with four distinct sentences: 1) based on the first analogy, reprimanding their taking the false; 2) based on the third, teaching them to take the genuine; 3) based on the second, exhorting them to know their past falsehood; 4) based once more on the third, exhorting them to take the present genuine. In the first, "You should not cultivate the perceptions of impermanence and so forth, taking them to be real" reprimands them based on the analogy. From "Just like that person..." onward, it cites the analogy to reprove them by comparison. "You should skillfully learn expedient means, constantly cultivating permanence, bliss, purity, and so forth in every place" teaches cultivating to proceed toward the real based on the third analogy; constantly practicing it life after life is why it says "in every place". "You should furthermore know that the characteristics of the four dharmas previously cultivated are all inversions" exhorts them to know their past falsehood based on the second analogy. Below, based once more on the third, it exhorts them to cultivate the present genuine: "those who wish to cultivate such perceptions" raises what they seek; "like a wise person bringing out the gem" exhorts them based on the analogy; "namely, self..." and so forth distinguishes what is to be cultivated.