妙法蓮華經文句 2.33

2.33

「須菩提」，此翻空生，生時家中倉庫筐篋器皿一切皆空。問占者，占者言吉。因空而生，字曰空生。從依報器皿瑞空以名正報，依正俱吉，故言空生也。常修空行故言善業。若供養者得現報故，故言善吉。常樂遊止閑林石窟寂靜之處，所修行業以空為本，常入空定住無諍三昧，喜說空法，有所宣辯皆分別空。將護眾生不令起礙，嫌行即住，嫌住即行。佛忉利下，率土輻湊爭前頂禮，端坐石室念諸法空，色非佛乃至識非佛，眼非佛乃至意非佛，豁然悟道。佛告蓮華比丘尼：「非汝前禮，汝禮色身；須菩提前見法身。」

“Subhūti” is translated here as “Born of Emptiness.” At his birth, all the storehouses, baskets, boxes, and vessels in his home were completely empty. When a diviner was consulted, the diviner said it was auspicious. Because he was born upon emptiness, he was given the style “Born of Emptiness” (Subhūti). The principal retribution was named based on the auspicious emptiness of the vessels of circumstantial retribution; since both circumstantial and principal retribution were auspicious, he was called “Born of Emptiness.” Because he constantly practiced the conduct of emptiness, he was called “Good Action” (Subhūti). Because anyone who made offerings to him obtained immediate retribution, he was called “Good and Auspicious” (Subhūti). He always delighted in roaming and residing in tranquil forests, stone caves, and quiet places; his practice took emptiness as its root. He constantly entered the concentration of emptiness, dwelt in the samādhi of non-dispute, delighted in speaking on the dharma of emptiness, and whenever he had explanations and debates, he distinguished emptiness. Protecting sentient beings so as not to cause them obstruction, if they disliked his walking, he stopped; if they disliked his stopping, he walked. When the Buddha descended from Trāyastriṃśa, the people of the whole land gathered together like spokes at a hub, vying to step forward and pay homage; [Subhūti] sat upright in a stone chamber contemplating the emptiness of all phenomena: form is not the Buddha, up to consciousness is not the Buddha; the eye is not the Buddha, up to the mind is not the Buddha; and he suddenly awakened to the Way. The Buddha said to the nun Utpalavarṇā: “It was not you who first paid homage; you paid homage to my form body. Subhūti earlier saw my Dharma body.”