維摩經略疏 8.23

8.23

「文殊至共之」，次問行悲，一問、二答。初、問者，已聞行慈，觀眾生入空見於中道。悲復云何？故次問也。二、淨名答者，若慈是與樂、悲是拔苦，祇以此無緣之慈所修功德，亦皆無緣與眾生共令得中道第一義樂名之為慈，慈即悲也。又拔其二邊之執，離於二種生死之苦，名之為悲。

From "Mañjuśrī... to shared with them" next asks about practicing compassion: first the question, and second the answer. First, as for the question: having heard about practicing loving-kindness, contemplating sentient beings, entering emptiness, and seeing the Middle Way, how is it with compassion? Hence the question follows. Second, as for Vimalakīrti's answer: if loving-kindness is bestowing bliss and compassion is uprooting suffering, simply taking the merits cultivated through this conditionless loving-kindness, all are also conditionlessly shared with sentient beings, causing them to attain the supreme bliss of the Middle Way, which is named loving-kindness; loving-kindness is compassion. Moreover, uprooting their attachment to the two extremes and freeing them from the suffering of the two kinds of birth-and-death is named compassion.