首楞嚴義疏注經 2.81

2.81

"Following" (隨) means to allow or let. Let your mind carefully examine and observe: if the Buddha is inverted, where in what you designate as the Buddha's body is it inverted? If you are inverted, where in what you designate as your own body is it termed inverted? This is to make him recognize where inversion lies. "Designate" (名字, here read in the departing tone) means to name or label. Ancient commentators interpreted this as an annihilation of characteristics (泯相), which caused the subsequent text's direct analysis of inversion to lose its coherence, becoming an isolated passage. Since upright and inverted would both be eliminated, why would the Tathāgata nevertheless speak of inversion? Students should examine this closely and not uncritically extol the ancients.