大乘起信論略述 2.21

2.21

[Treatise:] Question: [...] enter nirvāṇa equally? [Commentary:] Next is removing doubts. First the question, then the answer. This is the question. "All sentient beings equally possess suchness and equal perfuming" introduces the point of objection. "Why is there faith and lack of faith?" and so forth raises the contradiction and sets forth the difficulty. "Faith and lack of faith" cites the presence or absence of faithful mind in the stage of ordinary beings. "Difference in earlier and later" cites the difference in understanding and practice upon entering the stages. "Should all at one time," and so forth, directly presents the challenge. Since the perfuming of function is equal, how could there be differences? Since there are differences, how could one say they are perfumed equally?