大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 52.6

52.6

Regarding the commentary's "Because of acting dependent on another's enjoyment, and not for one's own affairs": third, explaining in terms of self and other. In detail, there are two meanings: first, the meaning of concealment and manifestation of self and other; second, the meaning of self and other mutually acting. In the former, the phrasing is singular, but the meaning is twofold: first, in terms of seeing the name of the other-enjoyment body and land and acting, rather than the self-affairs of self-enjoyment; second, taking great compassion as primary, it is purely for benefiting others, not having its actions stemming from oneself. Second, from "Self and other" onward: clarifying the meaning of self and other mutually acting, like the ten bodies mutually acting in the eighth stage. The sūtra says: "This bodhisattva, according with what the minds of sentient beings delight in, can make their own body into a land-body, sentient being-body, karmic retribution-body, śrāvaka-body, pratyekabuddha-body, bodhisattva-body, tathāgata-body, dharmakāya, wisdom-body, or space-body." This is self making other. "Furthermore, according with what the minds of sentient beings delight in, they can make a sentient being-body into their own body." This is other making self. If one causes a sentient being-body to become a land-body, bodhi-body, and so forth, this is also other making other; now we only take the meaning of self and other mutually acting. Self making other is like one's own body having no creation while the other makes self, like having another transform into articles of pleasure. Furthermore, self making other is like transforming into articles of pleasure for another; other making self is like another transforming into articles of pleasure for oneself. Hence it says: "Because self and other mutually acting are both masterly and free."