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俱舍論記 22.76

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22.76

As for "However, when the World-Honoured One said... is not truly definitive": from here on, the Sarvāstivāda resolves the three sūtras cited by the Sautrāntikas and others. This resolves the first sūtra. As for the sūtra stating that all feelings are nothing but suffering, the Buddha said: "Relying on the impermanence of all conditioned things and their deterioration, I spoke with implicit intent that all feelings are nothing but suffering." If one relies on impermanence, feeling is said to be the suffering of suffering and the suffering of conditioned existence; if one relies on deterioration, feeling is said to be the suffering of suffering and the suffering of deterioration. Thus one knows that this sūtra only relies on the two types—the suffering of conditioned existence and the suffering of deterioration—in stating that feeling is suffering, and does not state this relying on the suffering of suffering. Therefore the *Nyāyānusāra* says: "Thus one knows that this sūtra speaks relying on two sufferings, and does not utter the statement that all are suffering relying on the suffering of suffering." Another interpretation: Impermanence and deterioration are both the suffering of conditioned existence, since it says that all feelings are nothing but suffering. If it spoke of the suffering of deterioration, it would apply solely to pleasant feeling, and would not extend to painful and neutral [feeling]. The *Nyāyānusāra* says: "That which extends to the suffering of deterioration is precisely the suffering of conditioned existence that is deterioration and impermanence within the suffering of conditioned existence; it is not the suffering of deterioration among the three sufferings." From "If because..." downward, it shows that there are three feelings. The statement that feelings are all suffering relies on an implicit statement showing that there is another intent; it is not truly definitive. When stating that there are three feelings, it does not speak with an implicit intent; hence it is known that it is definitive that there are really three feelings.

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