維摩經略疏 3.19

3.19

"Abiding in the Buddha's deportment, his mind was like the great ocean": these two lines are the eighth, praising both bodily form and mind being fitting. In bodily form, his actions and pauses attained proper etiquette; in mind, his magnanimity had no barriers, like a worldly householder who possesses complete etiquette and the broad mind of a great person. Furthermore, "abiding in the Buddha's deportment" is like the bodhisattvas of the tenth ground learning the elephant-king backward glance of the Buddha and so forth: lifting a foot or setting a foot down, whatever they carry out is nowhere not the Buddha's work. Some say he possessed the marks and signs of the Buddha; now we say that he was able, like the Buddha, without rising from the concentration of cessation, to manifest all deportments and universally benefit all beings. "His mind was as vast as the ocean": the Great Sūtra clarifies that the ocean has eight inconceivable qualities, and the Buddha's Dharma is likewise. This is fully set forth in that sūtra. Now we say that the bodhisattva's unconditioned great compassion embraces everything, his mind grasping no marks, and therefore it does not increase; although he contemplates all dharmas as ultimately empty and quiescent, he does not abandon sentient beings, and therefore it does not decrease. Just like the great ocean, into which the myriad streams constantly enter without increasing it, and the submarine volcano constantly scorches without decreasing it, hence it is said that his mind was as vast as the ocean.