御注金剛般若波羅蜜經宣演 2.216

2.216

Sūtra: 'What the Buddha speaks of as the view of a self, the view of a person ... to the view of a life-span.' The Exposition states: The explanation. This text has three parts: first, citing; next, negating; and finally, concluding. First, citing 'What the Buddha speaks of as the view of a self', etc.: according with the conventional world, and wishing to counteract and bring false delusions to rest, he therefore spoke of it. Next, the text negating it: it is not like non-Buddhists and ordinary people who say there is a real self and produce real views; it is also different from the Hīnayāna, where although there is no self, there is a real view. Now the Mahāyāna school says that views of self, etc., are false conceptualizations since beginningless time in the world; in the true principle, there is fundamentally no real view. Therefore it is negated. The concluding part can be understood. That treatise's verse states: