維摩經略疏 8.89

8.89

「爾時」下，品之大段第七，淨名述成天女上答身子皆實不虛。文為四：一久值諸佛、二遊戲神通、三得無生忍、四願隨意現。雖復身子研問，未能令義顯現，故淨名述成天女所答，六義方顯也。一、「已曾供養九十二億佛」者，是順佛教能觀因緣三諦，故得栖此空室以慈悲熏，現天女像，散如法華平等供養。表通惑已盡、別惑侵除，得文字性離不思議解脫，即是述成天女答身子初問，明若離別惑華不著身。亦述成答身子第二問，明思議不思議二脫不同。二、「遊戲神通誓願具足」者，述入瞻蔔林不嗅餘香，亦述答第四轉女身問，如本願故現女身也。三、「得無生忍」，即是述第六身子問久如得菩提，天女答無所得故而得，即是法身成道。四、「以本願故隨意能現教化眾生」，即是述第五身子問沒生，天女答如佛化生。法身出沒本願應化真應本迹，其義顯也。

From "At that time" onward is the seventh major section of the chapter: Vimalakīrti confirms and endorses that the goddess's preceding answers to Śāriputra are all real and not false. The text has four parts: first, she has long served buddhas; second, she sports with spiritual penetrations; third, she has attained the forbearance of the unarisen; fourth, she manifests at will according to her vows. Although Śāriputra investigated and questioned, he was unable to make the meaning fully manifest; therefore Vimalakīrti confirms and endorses what the goddess answered, so that the six meanings become manifest. First, "She has already made offerings to ninety-two koṭis of buddhas": this means that, complying with the Buddha's teaching, she is able to contemplate the three truths of causes and conditions; thus she is able to dwell in this empty room, perfumed by loving-kindness and compassion, manifesting the form of a goddess and scattering flowers like the Lotus Sūtra's equal offerings. This signifies that shared afflictions have already been exhausted and separate afflictions have been cleared away, and that she has attained the inconceivable liberation in which the nature of letters is transcended. This confirms and endorses the goddess's answer to Śāriputra's first question, clarifying that if one is free from separate afflictions, the flowers do not adhere to the body. It also confirms and endorses the answer to Śāriputra's second question, clarifying that the two liberations, the conceivable and the inconceivable, are different. Second, "Sporting with spiritual penetrations, her vows are fully perfected": this confirms the entry into the campaka grove where no other fragrance is smelled, and also confirms the reply to the fourth question regarding transforming the female body, showing that she manifests a female body in accord with her fundamental vows. Third, "She has attained the forbearance of the unarisen": this confirms the sixth question where Śāriputra asked how long before she would attain bodhi and the goddess answered that she attains it because there is nothing to be attained; this is the dharmakāya's attainment of the Way. Fourth, "Because of her fundamental vows, she is able to manifest at will to teach and transform living beings": this confirms the fifth question where Śāriputra asked about passing away and rebirth and the goddess answered that it is like a buddha's transformationally produced being. The dharmakāya's appearing and disappearing is the response and transformation of fundamental vows, the true and response, source and traces; its meaning is thereby made manifest.