大般涅槃經義記 3.2

3.2

From here below, third, distinguishing the characteristics of liberation. Kāśyapa first requests: "We only pray that you will explain it again"; in contrast to the preceding discernment of the essence, it is described as "again". Below, the Buddha first praises, and later analyzes and explains it according to the flow of meaning. Within this there are ninety-four clauses, which, when finely subdivided, comprise one hundred and nine clauses: in the twenty-second, "free from affliction", there are seven distinct clauses; in the twenty-third, the meaning of "unmoving", there are four distinct clauses; in the twenty-fifth, the meaning of "rare", there are two clauses; in the twenty-sixth, the meaning of "vacuous and quiescent", there are also two clauses; in the thirtieth, the meaning of "profound", there are also two clauses; in the fifty-first, the meaning of "equal", there are also two clauses; in the sixty-seventh, "without narrowness", there are three clauses; the rest each constitute one; therefore, when differentiated, there are one hundred and nine clauses.