維摩經玄疏 3.223

3.223

答曰：更立等覺，未定為礙。所以然者，《華嚴經》明法雲十地功德智慧，用此於佛，如爪上土，方於大地。若爾，雖說一品無明，而實不可說品。何以得知？後心菩薩無功用道，其疾甚風，一日之間，能破無量品無明障惑。何況《瓔珞經》明等覺地，於百千萬億劫入重玄門，倒修凡夫事！是故開法雲地，更立金剛心等覺佛，於理無失。若知一品有無量品無明，用法雲無礙之智即盡，復何須開出等覺地！

Answer: Establishing virtual enlightenment further does not necessarily pose a problem. Why so? The Avataṃsaka Sūtra explains that the merit and wisdom of the tenth ground of the Cloud of Dharma, when compared to the Buddha's, is like the soil on a fingernail compared to the great earth. If so, although spoken of as one grade of ignorance, it is in truth an unspeakable number of grades. How is this known? The effortless path of the bodhisattva at the final mind is swifter than the wind, able in a single day to break through immeasurable grades of defilement that obstruct ignorance. How much more so when the Yingluo jing explains that on the ground of virtual enlightenment, for hundreds of thousands of myriads of koṭis of kalpas, one enters the door of profound depth, retrospectively practicing the affairs of ordinary worldlings! Therefore, opening the ground of the Cloud of Dharma and further establishing the buddha of virtual enlightenment with the adamantine mind has no flaw in principle. If one knows that a single grade contains immeasurable grades of ignorance, and that by using the unimpeded wisdom of the Cloud of Dharma they are immediately exhausted, why would there be any need to open up and bring forth the ground of virtual enlightenment?!