維摩經略疏 3.36

3.36

"When he went to places of gambling and games, he always delivered people": "gambling" refers to board games and dice, and "games" refers to such things as wéi-qí. "He always delivered people" means that he transformed them so that they would not be attached to indeterminate, agitated dissipation and emptily forfeit the merit of transcending the world; according with their individual capacities, they were to seek the four kinds of actual worldly transcendence—this is called "delivering people." He caused them to enter inconceivable liberation and placed them in the four lands. What is meant by "always" is that as soon as the capacity arose, he immediately transformed them, not waiting to be asked.