金剛般若經旨贊 2.240

2.240

Sūtra: “World-Honoured One, down to view of a life-span.” / Commentary: This is the explanation. In the text there are three parts: namely, the reiteration, the negation, and the conclusion. When the World-Honoured One speaks of having a view of a self and so forth, it is in order to eliminate the obstacle of grasping at self and phenomena, so that false imagination may cease, that he speaks provisionally; thus they do not exist in reality. Since this view of a self and so forth has no object that is a self, how could there be an agent that sees? Arising from beginningless perfuming and false conceptualization, because within the true principle there is originally no seeing, this is called the subtle obstacle. It is so that one may see the principle of the twofold selflessness of tathatā and attain detachment from it that he provisionally speaks of a view of a self and so forth. Clarifying this meaning, the Treatise speaks in verse: