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and the long-term cause. How is it the cause of arising? The cause of arising refers to karma and afflictions, etc., and the seeds of external plants, which are called the cause of arising. How is it the cause of accumulation? How virtue and virtuous mind accumulate, and non-virtue and non-virtuous mind accumulate, and neutral and neutral mind accumulate, this is called the cause of accumulation. How is it the cause of abiding? Because there are pillars below, the house will not collapse, and mountains, water, trees, and forests, all abide because of the great earth, and the inner four elements and countless afflictions, because of these, sentient beings abide, this is called the cause of abiding. How is it the cause of growth and increase? Relying on the conditions of clothing and food, etc., sentient beings grow and increase, and how the external seeds are not burned by fire, nor eaten by birds, so they grow and increase, and how renunciates and Brahmins, etc., rely on teachers and virtuous friends to grow and increase, and how the cause of parents causes children to grow and increase, this is called the cause of growth and increase. How is it the long-term cause? For example, relying on the cause of mantras, ghosts cannot cause death, and poison cannot harm, and relying on the king, thieves cannot invade, and how sprouts rely on earth, water, fire, and wind, etc., and how water and churning sticks and people become the long-term cause of ghee, and appearances and forms, etc., become the long-term cause of consciousness, and the white semen and black blood of parents become the long-term cause of sentient beings, and how time, etc., are all called the long-term cause. Son of lineage, if the nature of Nirvana is not accomplished by such five causes, why would it become the cause of impermanence? Son of lineage, there are also two kinds of causes, namely the cause of making and the cause of illuminating. How the potter's wheel is called the cause of making. Son of lineage, how lamps, etc., make dark things appear bright, this is called the cause of illuminating. Son of lineage,
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种姓之子，大涅槃并非由造作之因所成，而是仅仅由明晰之因所成。所谓明晰之因，即指菩提之道的三十七法，以及六波罗蜜多，这被称为明晰之因。种姓之子，布施是涅槃之因，但并非大涅槃之因。布施波罗蜜多被称为大涅槃之因。菩提之道的三十七法是涅槃之因，但并非大涅槃之因。菩提支分的无量无数之法，被称为大涅槃之因。吉祥。 《圣大般涅槃经》，第二十八卷。
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Son of lineage, the great Nirvana is not accomplished by the cause of action, but only by the cause of clarity. The so-called cause of clarity is this: the thirty-seven dharmas of the path to enlightenment and the six perfections are called the cause of clarity. Son of lineage, giving is the cause of Nirvana, but not the cause of great Nirvana. The perfection of giving is called the cause of great Nirvana. The thirty-seven dharmas of the path to enlightenment are the cause of Nirvana, but not the cause of great Nirvana. The immeasurable and countless dharmas of the limbs of enlightenment are called the cause of great Nirvana. Mangalam. The Sutra of the Great Nirvana of the Noble One, Volume Twenty-eight.