維摩經玄疏 1.71

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1.71

2. Accommodating suitability: this is [the siddhānta] for the person. The Treatise states, 'In a single matter, [the Buddha] may permit it or not permit it.' What is suitable is permitted; what is unsuitable is not permitted. For example, for a goldsmith the contemplation of breath-counting is suitable, and for a washerman the contemplation of impurity is suitable; this is suitability. If one expounds the four gates, whether phenomena or principle, and suitability generates goodness, this is called being permitted; if it generates unwholesomeness, it is not permitted. This is called the siddhānta for the person.

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