大般涅槃經義記 8.35

8.35

Next, it constructs the objection. First, it says: 'Whether they encounter [the conditions] or do not encounter them, all generate [the resolve]; why does the Tathāgata say that praising the nature causes them to generate the resolve?' This constructs an objection based on the superior person cited earlier. From 'If, whether they encounter or do not encounter [the conditions], they all do not generate [the resolve]' and so on, it constructs an objection based on the inferior person cited earlier. Clinging to the superior to subsume the inferior, he argues that all attain it naturally and do not depend on praising the nature. In this, the phrasing of the objections has six iterations, which are grouped into four.