注大乘入楞伽經 3.86

3.86

Fourth, analyzing the superiority and inferiority of the views and understandings of the foolish and the wise to clarify right cognition. Not knowing that the characteristics of distinction between birth-and-death and nirvāṇa exist only through false discrimination: that is, nirvāṇa is spoken of in contrast to birth-and-death, just as medicine is spoken of in contrast to illness. When one realizes that birth-and-death is non-existent, the nirvāṇa contrasted with it is also unobtainable. Therefore the Viśeṣacinti-brahma-paripṛcchā Sūtra states: "The Buddhas appear in the world not to cause sentient beings to emerge from birth-and-death and enter nirvāṇa, but only to deliver them from the two views of birth-and-death and nirvāṇa." Since false discrimination lacks intrinsic nature, it is precisely nirvāṇa.