維摩經略疏 4.113

4.113

"At that time, World-Honoured One, when I heard this I was bewildered": He recounts his own confusion, alarm, doubt, and lack of understanding. Why? The Tripiṭaka teaches only the clumsy deliverance of arising and ceasing; he had never heard the Buddha's four noble truths of non-action, and lacking wisdom he did not understand, hence he was "bewildered". Regarding "not knowing what words these were, not knowing how to reply": He did not know that what was spoken all expressed the perfect principle, nor did he know the provisional and real, the opening and barring, of the Buddha's Dharma, and therefore he did not know how to reply. Regarding "I then set down the bowl and wished to leave his house": Since he could neither fulfill respect nor humble himself to be equal to compassion, and apart from these two ways there was no other method to take [the food], he set down the bowl and left the house.