注維摩詰經 6.36

6.36

[Seng]zhao says: When inconceivable manifest traces appear without, inconceivable virtues must be prominent within. Searching back to their fundamental basis, it is nothing other than expedient means and wisdom! Why is this? Wisdom leaves nothing hidden unilluminated, and expedient means leaves no virtue uncultivated. Because nothing hidden is unilluminated, principle is exhaustively plumbed; because no virtue is uncultivated, achievements are fully realized. Achievements being realized consists in non-realization, and thus they are completed through oneness; principle being plumbed consists in non-plumbing, and thus it penetrates through emptiness. Therefore, wisdom encompasses all things yet has no illumination; expedient means accumulates all virtues yet has no achievement; silent and non-active, yet there is nothing it does not do—this is the utmost of the inconceivable. The vast and minute containing each other, diverse forms responding simultaneously—these are merely the coarse traces perceived by eyes and ears; how could they suffice to express it? Yet by relying on the branch one indicates the fundamental basis, and by lodging in the coarse one expresses the subtle; hence, by borrowing the seats, the matter is briefly manifested. From its beginning with the pure land to its conclusion with the offering of the Dharma, what this sūtra records of the Mahāyāna path is entirely inconceivable dharmas. Therefore the entrustment says: 'This sūtra is named the Dharma-gate of Inconceivable Liberation; you should uphold it.' This chapter takes its distinctive name because it manifests external traces. 'Liberation' is a mental dharma of sovereign mastery. Attaining this liberation, all that one does, internal practices and external responses, is sovereign and unimpeded; this is not something the two vehicles can conceive. It is only from the dharmakāya of the seventh stage upward that one attains this liberation. Another version calls it 'the liberation of the riddhipāda-samādhi.' [Kumāra]jīva says: They are of the same substance with different names. To wish to act and be unable to is bondage; when things are accomplished in response to thought, that is liberation. Having no inability is called liberation. Being able to do so while no one knows how it is so is called inconceivable.