維摩經略疏 10.16

10.16

Fifth, those bodhisattvas ask how many dharmas one must accomplish to achieve practice free of sores and warts and attain birth in a pure land. Practice means contemplation and understanding. As for warts on the mind of the Mahāyāna: when other associative thoughts arise to burden this correct practice, because the practice is mixed, it is called a wart. As in the rebuke of Ānanda regarding excessive slander and deficient slander: deficient slander is called damage to practice; if one gives rise to false views, that is the meaning of excessive slander. Relying on this, the urgency in vehicle and laxity in precepts, urgency in precepts and laxity in vehicle, urgency in both, and laxity in both are clarified to explain the warts on practice. In Mahāyāna practice, contemplation and understanding are mature; one who is urgent in the vehicle practices pure precepts without countless violations, giving rise to no wrongdoing of body or speech. This elucidates being free of sores and warts: it is being urgent in both vehicle and precepts, attaining birth in a pure land. If one is urgent in the vehicle but lax in precepts, their Mahāyāna contemplation may indeed be upright, yet they cannot guard body and speech, damaging and violating the precepts; this is having practice while precepts are defiled, hence having sores and warts. Because they possess the vehicle, upon birth they immediately see the Buddha; because their practice has warts, they are born into a mixed land—the mixed defiled land of cohabitation. If one is only urgent in precepts and lacks the vehicle, they become a śrāvaka or pratyekabuddha. If lax in both, one is an ordinary being (and so forth).