法華義疏 2.397

2.397

如一夕之眠，夢經百年之事，而百年之長宛然一夕之短，如故，即其事也。《注經》云「維摩能申七日以為一劫，促一劫以為七日，況玄匠開真一之門，何為不能長劫為短時耶？」但或言借義以標名，未必是神通之實事耳。世有重一言而賤千金、惜寸影而遺尺璧者，雖復俄頃之談，實過累劫之讌。若依唯識者，長短以心為體，故長短無定，如世有稱意人共語者不覺夜長等也。故知身心不動足知一日為千載矣。

It is like the sleep of a single evening, wherein one dreams through the events of a hundred years, yet the length of a hundred years is just as the brevity of a single evening, unchanged—this is precisely the case. The *Commentary on the [Vimalakīrti] Sūtra* (*Zhujing*) says: "Vimalakīrti was able to extend seven days into a kalpa, and compress a kalpa into seven days. How much more so the Mysterious Master opening the gate of True Oneness—why could he not turn a long kalpa into a short span?" Yet some say this merely borrows the meaning to designate the name, and is not necessarily an actual feat of supernatural power. In the world there are those who value a single word while slighting a thousand pieces of gold, or who begrudge an inch of shadow while discarding a foot of jade. Although it is a conversation of a fleeting moment, it truly surpasses the feasts of accumulated kalpas. If one relies on consciousness-only (vijñaptimātra), length and brevity have mind as their essence, and therefore length and brevity are unfixed—just as in the world, when one converses with a congenial person, one does not notice the night is long, and so forth. Thus we know that when body and mind do not stir, one can fully know that a single day is a thousand years.