維摩經略疏 3.95

3.95

問：今此勸求何教佛身？答：難可定判。或是方便兩教，或是常住佛身。何故知爾？果本酬因，既說方便，還勸求住有餘佛果。或是勸求常住果者，諸人既厭身是無常苦聚，應勸求於常樂涅槃，豈可勸求樹王灰斷？故下文云「如來身者從真實生。」

Question: In this exhortation to seek, the Buddha's body of which teaching is it? Answer: It is difficult to make a definitive judgment. It may be the two expedient teachings, or it may be the eternally abiding Buddha body. Why is this known to be so? The fruit fundamentally repays the cause; since expedient means have been spoken, it also exhorts them to seek abiding in the Buddha fruit with remainder. Or it may be exhorting them to seek the eternally abiding fruit: since everyone already loathes the body as an impermanent accumulation of suffering, they should be exhorted to seek the eternal, blissful nirvāṇa; how could they be exhorted to seek reduction to ashes and extinction beneath the tree king? Therefore the text below says: 'The Tathāgata's body arises from true reality.'