維摩經略疏 4.76

4.76

「為壞和合相故應取摶食」，三、約斷集破者，集是煩惱和合，隨其受報，即須四食。原迦葉斷集本欲破此和合集因，故求摶食資身觀行。若在學地和合未盡，可乞摶食資身斷之令盡。今證有餘和合集盡，更乞食資身，意何所主？若言為破眾生和合，則不應捨富及入無餘。菩薩不爾，破界內外集諦未盡，應受摶食資身破和合相。若為化物，應不簡貧富悉令如我，不應忿忿而入涅槃。

"One should take morsel food for the sake of destroying composite characteristics": third, refuting in terms of severing the origin of suffering. The origin is the aggregation of afflictions; according to the retribution received, one requires the four kinds of food. Originally, Kāśyapa severed the origin wishing to destroy this composite cause of origin, hence he sought morsel food to sustain his body and engage in contemplation. If he were in the stage of learning, the composite would not yet be exhausted, and he might beg for morsel food to sustain his body and sever it to exhaustion. Having now realized [nirvāṇa] with residue and the composite origin being exhausted, what is his purpose in begging for food again to sustain his body? If he said it was to destroy the composite nature of sentient beings, he should not have abandoned the wealthy nor entered into [nirvāṇa] without residue. A bodhisattva is not like this; having not yet exhausted the truth of the origin within and outside the realms, they should receive morsel food to sustain the body and destroy composite characteristics. If it is to convert beings, they should make no distinction between poor and wealthy, causing all to be like themselves, and should not hastily enter nirvāṇa.