四分律行事鈔資持記 2.109

2.109

斥愚中，初科。上句示其愚暗。自毀者，身為佛子，反毀佛教故。又自身稟戒，反毀戒律故。如黃葉等，此明倚濫，即佛經中有此言故。《涅槃》云：嬰兒啼哭之時（喻小機也），父母即以楊樹黃葉，而語之言：莫啼，我與汝金（喻如來施權也）。嬰兒見已，生真金想，便止不啼（謂得涅槃）。然此楊葉，實非金也（非大涅槃）；木牛木馬、木男木女，嬰兒見已，亦復生於男女等想（喻亦同上）。此明如來追述爾前施小之意；至《涅槃》時，決了權疑，同歸常住，寧復有小耶！此所謂不知教也。

In rebuking the foolish, the first section: the upper line shows their foolishness and darkness. "Slandering themselves" means that being disciples of the Buddha, they conversely slander the Buddha's teaching; moreover, having personally received the precepts, they conversely slander the vinaya precepts. "Like yellow leaves", and so forth: this clarifies their illicit reliance, namely because the Buddhist sūtras contain these words. The Nirvāṇa [Sūtra] says: when an infant cries (analogous to those of small capacity), the parents take the yellow leaves of a willow tree and say to it, "Do not cry, I will give you gold" (analogous to the Tathāgata applying expedient means). When the infant sees it, it generates the idea that it is real gold and then stops crying (meaning the attainment of nirvāṇa). Yet these willow leaves are truly not gold (not the Great Nirvāṇa); when the infant sees wooden oxen, wooden horses, wooden men, or wooden women, it likewise generates the idea of men, women, and so on (the analogy is also the same as above). This clarifies that the Tathāgata was recounting in retrospect his intention of having previously applied the small [vehicle]; when it came to the Nirvāṇa [Sūtra], the doubts about expedient means were resolved, and all converged into the permanently abiding—how could there still be a small [vehicle]! This is what is called not understanding the teaching.