大般涅槃經疏 16.12

16.12

「迦葉白佛」下，是第二釋行名。問：何故戒慧之後俱釋行名，定行無耶？答：初後既釋，中間略無。今文為四：前佛復宗通結竟，今初迦葉問、次則如來別結、三迦葉更問、四如來開結次第五行。此之五行本為五人有病行處說此法門。二乘之人得有修義，即聲聞緣覺如是聞已則能奉行，故名聖行。又有別根性拙度菩薩，約次第修，亦名聖行。若是諸佛世尊之所行者，名為聖行。此結圓行，如來行之，故作不治。遇與不遇悉皆得差，正結此人及此法門。古來不見此結束意，是故不作別圓兩釋。若二乘人及別根性有病行處，聞佛說者修之則差、不修不差，此結次第。

From "Kāśyapa said to the Buddha" onward is the second [section], explaining the name of the practice. Question: Why is it that after precepts and wisdom both explanations of the practice's name are given, yet there is none for meditative absorption? Answer: Since the beginning and the end are explained, the middle is omitted for brevity. Now, the text has four parts: earlier the Buddha resumed the fundamental thesis and concluded it comprehensively; now first Kāśyapa asks; next the Tathāgata concludes particularly; third, Kāśyapa asks further; fourth, the Tathāgata unfolds and concludes the sequential five practices. These five practices were originally spoken as a Dharma gate for five kinds of persons who possess diseases in their spheres of practice. People of the two vehicles obtain the meaning of cultivation—that is, when śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas hear this, they are able to practice accordingly, and hence it is called "holy practice". Furthermore, there are bodhisattvas of distinct capacity and clumsy crossing over who cultivate sequentially; this is also called "holy practice". If it is that which is practiced by all Buddhas, the World-Honoured Ones, it is called "holy practice". This concludes the perfect practice. Since the Tathāgata practices it, he treats nothing as incurable. Whether encountered or not encountered, all obtain healing; this precisely concludes this person and this Dharma gate. In the past, people failed to see this concluding intent, and thus did not produce the two interpretations of the distinct and the perfect. If persons of the two vehicles and those of distinct capacity who have diseases in their spheres of practice cultivate it upon hearing the Buddha teach it, they are healed; if they do not cultivate it, they are not healed—this concludes the sequential [practice].