維摩經略疏 6.42

6.42

「多聞至空故」，三、明多聞進行。雖具自他之智，事須進修令成圓極。「多聞是道場」，初心菩薩得真聞持，聞十方佛法、破諸妄暗，多聞顯發文字性離，即是道場，以能隨順如聞而行。「伏心是道場」，《瓔珞》云「從初發心至金剛頂，皆名伏忍。」初心圓伏無明，進顯真實，即是道場。一心三觀即是正觀諸法。「三十七品是道場」，菩薩初心得無作道品，能除八倒一切妄惑、顯法性五陰法身解脫進修，乃至得大涅槃，即是道場。界內四諦、界外三諦皆名有為，而背捨也。無量滅諦無作道滅，即真無為。「諦是道場」，此下五番即是道品所觀之境。初心菩薩能用道品見四四諦，斷界內外迷理煩惱、顯權實理，即是道場。說四四諦，即「不誑世間」。「緣起是道場」，觀十二因緣有四種相，初心菩薩能用無作道品觀因緣三道，得三種菩提，即是道場。若觀因緣見三佛性，即無盡也。「諸煩惱是道場」，初心菩薩能用道品觀於三毒，不染虛偽、顯真佛法，即是道場。亦知煩惱及以佛法皆畢竟空。「眾生是道場」，初心菩薩能用道品觀九道眾生空，不見眾生相則妄惑不起，見眾生真性即是佛性，即是道場。若不見眾生定性，則於我無我而不二，是真無我義。「一切法是道場」，初心菩薩能用道品觀一切陰入等空，破諸法中顛倒妄惑，顯佛性五陰、得五種涅槃，即是道場。亦知諸法及涅槃空。

From "Extensive learning" to "emptiness": third, explaining advancing practice through extensive learning. Though one possesses the wisdom of self and other, in actual practice one must advance in cultivation to make it round and ultimate. "Extensive learning is the place of awakening": the bodhisattva of the initial mind attains true retention of what is heard, hears the Buddha-dharma of the ten directions, destroys all false darkness, and extensive learning reveals and brings forth the detachment from the nature of letters; this is the place of awakening, because one can comply with and practice according to what is heard. "Subduing the mind is the place of awakening": The Yingluo [jing] states: "From the initial resolve up to the vajra summit, all is called patience of subduing." The initial mind completely subdues fundamental ignorance and advances to reveal the real; this is the place of awakening. The threefold contemplation in a single mind is precisely the correct contemplation of all dharmas. "The thirty-seven factors are the place of awakening": the bodhisattva at the initial mind attains the unconditioned factors of the path, can eliminate all false delusions of the eight inversions, and reveals the dharmakāya and liberation of the dharma-nature five skandhas, advancing in cultivation up to the attainment of great nirvāṇa; this is the place of awakening. The four truths within the realms and the three truths beyond the realms are all called conditioned, and one turns away from and renounces them. The immeasurable truth of cessation and the unconditioned path and cessation are the truly unconditioned. "The truths are the place of awakening": the five items below are the objective realms contemplated by the factors of the path. The bodhisattva of the initial mind can use the factors of the path to see the four sets of four truths, sever afflictions that delude regarding principle within and beyond the realms, and reveal the provisional and true principles; this is the place of awakening. Preaching the four sets of four truths, this is "not deceiving the world." "Dependent origination is the place of awakening": contemplating the twelve links of dependent origination has four aspects; the bodhisattva of the initial mind can use the unconditioned factors of the path to contemplate the three paths of dependent origination and attain the three kinds of bodhi; this is the place of awakening. If one contemplates dependent origination and sees the three buddha-natures, it is inexhaustible. "All afflictions are the place of awakening": the bodhisattva of the initial mind can use the factors of the path to contemplate the three poisons, not being stained by falsehood, and reveal the true Buddha-dharma; this is the place of awakening. They also know that afflictions as well as the Buddha-dharma are all ultimately empty. "Sentient beings are the place of awakening": the bodhisattva of the initial mind can use the factors of the path to contemplate the emptiness of sentient beings of the nine paths; when not seeing the marks of sentient beings, false delusions do not arise, and seeing the true nature of sentient beings is seeing the buddha-nature; this is the place of awakening. If one does not see a fixed nature in sentient beings, then self and non-self are non-dual; this is the meaning of true non-self. "All dharmas are the place of awakening": the bodhisattva of the initial mind can use the factors of the path to contemplate the emptiness of all aggregates, sense fields, and so forth, destroying inverted false delusions regarding all dharmas, revealing the five skandhas of buddha-nature, and attaining the five kinds of nirvāṇa; this is the place of awakening. They also know that all dharmas and nirvāṇa are empty.