摩訶止觀 3.31

3.31

Answer: The various Hīnayāna masters say: "When prajñā and sarvākārajñatā are already perfected, karmic retribution still remains; vimokṣa is not yet complete, and the body still consumes gross food; being moreover accompanied by impermanence, one is superior and two are inferior, like a fire running across a river [in the character chuān]." They also say: "First there is the body with marks and signs; next one obtains the prajñā of sarvākārajñatā; later, upon extinguishing body and wisdom, one only then completes vimokṣa." Since there is the sense of superior and inferior, before and after, this is compared to the vertically arranged three dots of the water radical. When entering the concentration of cessation, there is body without wisdom; when an arhat is in the formless realm, there is wisdom without body; when entering remainderless [nirvāṇa], there is only solitary vimokṣa. These meanings are mutually unrelated to each other: set side by side they are horizontal, stacked upon each other they are vertical, and differentiated they are disparate.