維摩經略疏 10.4

10.4

此品來意，正為室內明非真非有之中，能道觀雙流、淨穢俱顯，圓通不礙、融會無方，入不二門雙亡二邊正入中道。此品雙照二諦，淨穢俱融，廣上非真非假之文，成於道觀雙流之義，顯出圓通自在之用。今文異上雙照二諦之用，上〈問疾品〉未廣明雙用結成菩薩行具舉諸行，雖知諸佛國土永寂如空，而現種種清淨佛土，是菩薩行。今文還釋上二用，明淨穢二土相涉。文中處處釋出淨土之意，故知此經始末並皆釋成佛國因果，其義宛然。此文明淨穢二土之行既爾，諸行亦然，舉此以例諸也。故有此品文來。

The purpose of this chapter's coming is precisely that within the room, where neither the real nor the existent was clarified, the path and contemplation can flow together, purity and defilement can both be manifested, perfect penetration is unimpeded, and blending occurs without fixed limits; entering the non-dual gate, one dispels both extremes and properly enters the Middle Way. This chapter illuminates both of the two truths and fuses purity and defilement together, expanding upon the earlier text on neither real nor provisional, establishing the meaning of the twin flow of path and contemplation, and revealing the function of unhindered, perfect penetration. The present text differs from the earlier function of illuminating both of the two truths. Earlier, in the 'Chapter on Inquiring after the Illness', it did not yet fully explain the twofold function or conclude with the complete enumeration of practices of the bodhisattva path—that 'although knowing that all buddha-lands are eternally tranquil like space, they manifest various pure buddha-lands: this is the bodhisattva's practice.' The present text returns to explain those two functions, clarifying the mutual interpenetration of the pure and defiled lands. Throughout the text, the meaning of the pure land is explained at every point; hence we know that from beginning to end, this sūtra thoroughly explains and accomplishes the causes and effects of the buddha-lands, and its meaning is manifest. Since this text clarifies that the practices of the pure and defiled lands are thus, all other practices are likewise; this is adduced to illustrate the rest. Therefore, this chapter has come.