涅槃經遊意 1.99

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第四、難涅槃不可翻，則涅槃一部並壞。涅槃發初，晨朝唱告般涅槃，一切大眾皆悉悲惱。純陀云：「雖知如來方便涅槃，而我等不能不懷悲惱。」既是眾德，大眾及純陀何事悲苦？又《現病品》云：「倚臥鶴樹間，下愚凡夫見尚言必涅槃。」若是眾德，下愚豈能得見？若見眾德，乃是上智，何故名下愚？故不可。

Fourth, challenging that if nirvāṇa cannot be translated, then the entire Nirvāṇa [Sūtra] is ruined. At the outset of the Nirvāṇa [Sūtra], in the early morning it is proclaimed that he is entering parinirvāṇa, and the entire great assembly is sorrowful and distressed. Cunda says: “Although we know that the Tathāgata’s nirvāṇa is skillful means, yet we cannot help harboring sorrow and distress.” If it is manifold virtues, why should the great assembly and Cunda grieve and suffer? Furthermore, the Manifesting Illness Chapter says: “Lying between the crane trees, even lowest foolish ordinary people who see it say he will definitely enter nirvāṇa.” If it were manifold virtues, how could lowest fools see it? If they saw manifold virtues, they would be of superior wisdom; why would they be called lowest fools? Therefore it is unacceptable.