法華玄論 10.92

10.92

二者言本迹者，觀音即是法身，以居法身之地觀物根緣也。普門謂應身，法身地照緣故垂應救拔。如《華嚴》云「金翅鳥王上昇虛空，以清淨眼觀大海龍應命盡者，即以兩翅搏水令兩闢而撮取之。菩薩以法身智眼觀法界虛空，見眾生應得度者，以實慧方便二翅搏生死海而度脫之。」如云「非本以無垂迹、非迹無以顯本，本迹雖殊，不思議一。」因此本迹為開不本不迹正法蓮華也。

Second, as for 'origin and trace', Avalokiteśvara is the dharmakāya, who, dwelling in the ground of the dharmakāya, observes the faculties and conditions of beings. The Universal Gate is the response body; because the ground of the dharmakāya illuminates conditions, it extends responses to rescue and deliver. As the Avataṃsaka says: 'The king of garuḍas ascends into the sky and, with pure eyes, observes the nāgas in the great ocean whose lives are destined to end; he immediately strikes the water with both wings, parting it in two, and seizes them. Bodhisattvas, with the wisdom-eye of the dharmakāya, observe the empty space of the dharmadhātu, and seeing sentient beings who should be delivered, strike the ocean of saṃsāra with the two wings of real wisdom and skillful means to deliver them.' As it is said: 'Without origin there is nothing to extend traces; without traces there is nothing to reveal origin. Although origin and trace differ, their inconceivable unity remains.' Through this origin and trace, the correct Dharma Lotus of neither origin nor trace is opened.