維摩經玄疏 5.82

5.82

Second, discerning the characteristics of inconceivable liberation: we again discern the characteristics in terms of conceivable liberation and inconceivable liberation. Conceivable liberation is the liberation of the two kinds of nirvāṇa and reducing the body to ashes and annihilating consciousness attained by the persons of the three vehicles of the Tripiṭaka teaching and the shared teaching; inconceivable liberation is the constant quiescence of great parinirvāṇa attained by the bodhisattvas and buddhas of the two teachings, distinctive and perfect, which is itself inconceivable liberation. Now, differentiating the dissimilar characteristics of these two kinds of liberation broadly comprises seven points: first, differentiating in terms of principle; second, differentiating in terms of wisdom; third, differentiating in terms of severance and non-severance; fourth, differentiating in terms of within and beyond the realms; fifth, differentiating in terms of having substance and lacking substance; sixth, differentiating in terms of having function and lacking function; seventh, differentiating in terms of shared conceivable and unshared conceivable.