金光明經玄義 1.25

1.25

料簡三涅槃者，若饑得食、病得差、獄得出、獼猴得酒、旃遮婆羅門飽食指腹，皆是世人暢情為涅槃爾。若計非想定、無想天為涅槃者，此是邪見妄謂為涅槃爾。若多貪欲人得不淨觀為涅槃者，斯乃四善根方便行人涅槃也。若三界煩惱盡，證有餘涅槃，焚身灰智入無餘涅槃，菩薩未得此涅槃。此即阿含中析法二乘之涅槃。若三乘人同盡子果兩縛，即是通教中共涅槃。若指中道如理為性淨涅槃，中道智為圓淨涅槃，同緣出世薪盡火滅，為方便淨涅槃。三種各別，互不相關，是為別教涅槃。若言但有性淨、方便淨兩涅槃，不明緣因涅槃，各別不融者，還是別教，非今經所譬涅槃也。

The critical distinction of the three kinds of nirvāṇa: When the hungry obtain food, the sick obtain recovery, the imprisoned obtain release, a monkey obtains wine, or the Brahmin woman Ciñcā eats her fill and points to her belly—all these are merely worldly people gratifying their feelings as nirvāṇa. If one conceives of the concentration of neither-perception-nor-non-perception or the heaven without thought as nirvāṇa, this is merely a wrong view falsely designated as nirvāṇa. If a person of excessive desire attains the contemplation of impurity as nirvāṇa, this is the nirvāṇa of a practitioner of the skillful means of the four wholesome roots. If, with the afflictions of the three realms exhausted, one realizes nirvāṇa with remainder, and then by incinerating the body and reducing wisdom to ashes one enters nirvāṇa without remainder—a bodhisattva has not attained this nirvāṇa; this is the nirvāṇa of the two vehicles through the analysis of dharmas found in the Āgamas. If persons of the three vehicles together exhaust the two bonds of defilements and fruition, this is the common nirvāṇa in the shared teaching. If one points to the Middle Way according with the principle as the nirvāṇa of purity of nature, Middle Way wisdom as the nirvāṇa of round purity, and manifesting in the world according to conditions, where when the fuel is exhausted the fire goes out, as the nirvāṇa of purity of skillful means—these three are each distinct and mutually unrelated; this is the nirvāṇa of the distinct teaching. If it is said that there are only the two nirvāṇas of purity of nature and purity of skillful means, without clarifying the conditional cause nirvāṇa, so that they are separate and not integrated, this is still the distinct teaching, not the nirvāṇa exemplified in the present sūtra.