[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [維摩經玄疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1777) › 5.111 # 維摩經玄疏 5.111 維摩經玄疏 5.111 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1777.5.111) 答曰：四十二地寂照雖同，無明品品盡異，故下地未盡一品，不能知上地；上地盡一品，則能知下地。二乘乃至凡夫，皆有此不思議理，而思量分別惑障所覆，未破無明憶想分別，故不能不思而知；諸佛菩薩無明憶想分別破，故不思而知。譬如初月昇天，不作思念：「我照世界，及照眾生。」而眾生世界，自然光顯；至十五日，月圓滿之時，亦不念言：「我照，彼顯。」圓教所明佛菩薩亦爾，豈同瑩光也。 > Answer: Across the forty-two grounds, quiescence and illumination are identical, yet the degrees to which ignorance is exhausted differ by rank; hence, when a lower ground has not yet exhausted a certain rank, it cannot know a higher ground; when a higher ground has exhausted that rank, it can know the lower ground. The two vehicles and even ordinary persons all possess this inconceivable principle, but covered by the obstacles of delusion through deliberation and discrimination, having not broken through the recollection and discrimination of ignorance, they cannot know without deliberation; the buddhas and bodhisattvas have broken through the recollection and discrimination of ignorance, and therefore know without deliberation. For example, when the crescent moon ascends into the sky, it forms no thought: 'I illuminate the world and illuminate sentient beings'; yet sentient beings and the world are naturally illuminated and revealed. When it reaches the fifteenth day, the time of the full moon, it likewise does not think: 'I illuminate, and that is revealed.' The buddhas and bodhisattvas explained in the perfect teaching are also like this; how could they be like a lamp's light? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1777.5.110) - [Next: 5.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1777.5.112) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1777.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1777~en-mt.5.111) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1777.5.111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1777.5.111) · Pramāṇa