大般涅槃經義記 8.5

8.5

In the first gate, first there is a question and then an explanation. This gate specifically speaks in terms of ordinary persons: if an ordinary person has not severed the cultivation of a greedy mind, such a person arises and ceases together with greed—this is spoken in terms of one who arouses it; the manifest arising of greed is called cultivation. From "all arisen" downward, it is spoken in terms of one who possesses it. Therein, first is the doctrine, next the simile, and afterward the application; below, it explains it again.