華嚴經探玄記 11.67

11.67

Fifth, in "abstaining from divisive speech", the new translation calls it "alienating speech". The phrase "having no mind to cause ruin" is abandonment through antidote, since ruining both sides is what is to be countered. "In conflicts…" and below clarifies abandonment of the fruit-actions, which has two aspects: 1. subtle: holding the matter in mind; 2. coarse: physically going to another place and speaking it. The treatise says that these two kinds are evident, meaning deceptively showing oneself as lucid to both sides, which constitutes divisive speech; like a jackal deceitfully acting friendly toward both a lion and a tiger to ruin both sides, and so forth. Furthermore, it says that "hearing this, one does not speak it to that person to cause ruin": this clearly cites the sūtra to show abandonment, meaning fearing that the other person, upon hearing these words, would give rise to afflictive and ruinous actions toward this person, and therefore one does not speak them. Another explanation: fearing that that person's harmonious mind toward this person would be ruined, one therefore does not speak them; hearing that side, it is likewise. The rest is as stated in the treatise.