維摩經略疏 4.15

4.15

五、明雙樹者，上雖明枯榮，語少義隱。是十弟子共輔如來，莊嚴半滿引物見性住大涅槃，即雙樹間涅槃義也。三藏無常破常四倒，莊嚴四枯引接眾生，一一數中四悉攝物，隨其善巧輔佛法王，成半字教利益一切。若一人四悉，十人即有四十莊嚴，乃至五百即有二千莊嚴四枯也。

Fifth, explaining the twin trees: Although the withered and the flourishing were explained above, the words were few and the meaning was hidden. These ten disciples jointly assist the Tathāgata, adorning the half and the full [teachings] to guide living beings to see their nature and abide in great nirvāṇa; this is precisely the meaning of nirvāṇa between the twin trees. The Tripiṭaka's [teaching of] impermanence destroys the four inversions of permanence, adorning the four withered [trees] to attract and receive sentient beings; within each single factor, the four siddhāntas gather beings, assisting the Buddha, the Dharma King, according to their skillfulness, and perfecting the half-character teaching to benefit everyone. If one person has the four siddhāntas, then ten persons have forty adornments, up to five hundred who have two thousand adornments of the four withered [trees].