大般涅槃經義記 6.2

6.2

Below, he clarifies the fruit of equanimity; the text has three parts: first, a brief distinction by question and answer; second, an extensive explanation by question and answer; third, below "abiding in this ground, one has no obstruction regarding all dharmas", he explains and reveals the name of the ground. In the brief [distinction], Kāśyapa first summarizes what came before, and asks in order to initiate what follows. "Cultivating loving-kindness, compassion, and sympathetic joy, one attains the ground of an only child" summarizes what came before; "cultivating equanimity, what does one attain?" asks what follows. Below, the Buddha first praises, and then explains for him: "Cultivating equanimity, one attains abiding in the equal ground of emptiness" introduces the topic in general terms; "just like Subhūti" reveals it in terms of the human category; "what the bodhisattva attains surpasses Subhūti" uses the coarse to illustrate the subtle, and merely speaks of it as "like." Alternatively, Subhūti was truly a bodhisattva whose realization of emptiness was deep and abstruse, and so he pointedly referenced him.