維摩義記 3.68

3.68

In the fourth explanation, "Why is this?" questions what preceded to introduce what follows: why do ordinary people exclusively have reciprocity while śrāvakas alone lack it? Below, it explains in response. "Ordinary people, upon hearing the Buddha's teachings, generate the unsurpassed mind and do not cut off the Three Jewels" explains the preceding [point that] ordinary people have reciprocity. "Even if a śrāvaka were to hear the Dharma for his entire life, he would eternally be unable to generate the powers, fearlessnesses, and so forth" explains the earlier [point that] śrāvakas lack it. Śrāvakas delight in quiescence and have no suffering to feel revulsion toward, nor can they follow conditioned existence with compassionate thoughts for sentient beings, and therefore they cannot generate it. Above, what is practiced was clarified.