注維摩詰經 1.460

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什曰：佛土清淨，階降不同，或如四天王，乃至如六天、或如梵天，乃至如淨居、或有過淨居天。過淨居天者，唯補處菩薩生此國也。稱適眾心，故現國不同。螺髻所見如自在天宮者，復是其所應見耳，而未盡其淨也。下言譬如寶莊嚴佛國，始是釋迦真報應淨國。淨國即在此世界，如《法華經．壽量品》中說。此淨穢同處而不相雜，猶如下一器中有二種食，應二種眾生。肇曰：夫同聲相和、同見相順，梵王即法身大士也，依佛淨慧故所見皆淨，因其所見而證焉。且佛土真淨，超絕三界，豈直若天宮世淨而已哉？此蓋齊其所見而為言耳。舍利弗在人而見其土石，梵王居天而見如天宮，自餘所見亦各不同。佛土所應，義在于此。生曰：螺髻梵王迹在生死，邪推己同在三界受福為淨，知無福者自取斯穢，釋迦之土便與天宮無異，以質舍利弗之不達為甚惑矣。

[Kumāra]jīva says: The purity of buddha-lands has different gradations: some are like [the heaven of] the Four Heavenly Kings, up to being like the six [desire] heavens; or like the Brahma heavens, up to being like the Pure Abodes; or some surpass the Pure Abodes. Those surpassing the Pure Abodes are lands where only bodhisattvas of one lifetime remaining are born. Conforming to the minds of the assembly, different lands are manifested. What Sikhin saw was like the palace of the Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven, which was again just what he was suited to see, and did not exhaust its purity. Below, it says that it is like the Jewel-Adorned Buddha-land; that is Śākyamuni's true, retribution-pure land. The pure land is right in this world, as taught in the 'Duration of Life' chapter of the Lotus Sūtra. This purity and defilement share the same place without mingling, just as two kinds of food can be in a single vessel, corresponding to two kinds of sentient beings. / [Seng]zhao says: Those with the same sound harmonize together; those with the same view accord with each other. The Brahma King is indeed a dharmakāya mahāsattva; relying on the Buddha's pure wisdom, everything he sees is pure, and based on what he sees, he bears witness to it. Moreover, the true purity of the buddha-land transcends the three realms; how could it merely be like the worldly purity of a heavenly palace? This is simply speaking in accordance with what he saw. Śāriputra, being among humans, sees its earth and stones; the Brahma King, dwelling in heaven, sees it like a heavenly palace; what others see is also each different. This is the meaning of how the buddha-land responds. / [Dao]sheng says: The Brahma King Sikhin manifests traces in saṃsāra, and wrongly infers that since both are enjoying retribution in the three realms as purity, he knows that those without merit bring this defilement upon themselves; thus Śākyamuni's land is no different from a heavenly palace, using this to question Śāriputra's lack of penetration as great delusion.