維摩經略疏 2.166

2.166

"The Buddha withdrew... up to ...minds were liberated": Next, it clarifies that after restoring the impurity, they awakened to impermanence and attained the path of the Small Vehicle. First seeing the impure become pure, impurity is impermanent; restoring the pure back to the impure, purity is seen as impermanent. Impermanence is swift, and therefore they attained the purity of the Dharma-eye, seeing clearly the teaching of the four truths of arising and ceasing; the Dharma-eye of the Small Vehicle is at the stage of the path of seeing, not the Dharma-eye of the Great Vehicle. "Eight thousand did not accept": They realized the path of the non-learner, no longer accepting the false, deceptive dharmas of birth and death in the three realms. Thus we know that this sūtra still carries teachings of the clumsy deliverance; the intent lies in this.