御注金剛般若波羅蜜經宣演 2.153

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2.153

Sūtra: “If there were sentient beings […] self, person, sentient being, and soul.”
Exposition: Counter-demonstration. Although there is no character for “grasping” here, the meaning shows that there would be grasping at a self, person, and so on. Therefore the treatise says: “The Tathāgata knows in accordance with the jñeya. Therefore, if there were sentient beings, would the Tathāgata have a self?” The meaning is that the Buddha's all-inclusive knowledge knows in accordance with principle; asserting existence within nonexistence is false attachment, contradicting the sphere of the jñeya. Since there is no false attachment, therefore he does not see any sentient being crossed over by the Tathāgata. That verse says:

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