大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 18.93

18.93

Regarding the commentary’s "Meaning that compassion and prajñā are constantly mutually responsive..." and so forth: this is the function of the cognition of equality in the *Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi*. Below this, it is correlated with the transformation body, briefly presenting one characteristic. In reality, this body also extends to enjoyment for others, because it is born according with the intentions of bodhisattvas of the ten grounds. Furthermore, because compassion and wisdom guide each other, it extends to transformative functions, since the transformation body is precisely the great function of non-abiding nirvāṇa. Regarding the commentary’s "Responded to and thereupon penetrating": this is from the *Zhouyi*, "Appended Remarks," which states: "The Changes has no thought, no action. Serenely unmoving, it is responded to and thereupon penetrates all conditions under heaven. Were it not the utmost spiritual [power] under heaven, who could be equal to this?" The commentary says: "The utmost spiritual is serene yet there is nothing it does not respond to. This is indeed the mother of functions, that from which images and numbers arise." The meaning clarifies that only by abandoning images can one control images; only by discarding numbers can one exhaust numbers; only by being non-moving can one respond to movement. That [classic] takes the vacuous nothingness and non-motion of the Changes, so that it can be without non-motion; here, these words are borrowed to compare the Tathāgata's internal essence being completely serene while externally responding to all beings. Continuing upon the essence-quiescence of the manifold merits being already pure, it then speaks of constantly manifesting birth; hence it says, "serenely unmoving, it is responded to and thereupon penetrates," which is precisely the dharmakāya's non-birth, with nothing that it does not give birth to.