維摩經略疏 4.35

4.35

From "mind not [dwelling]" up to "quiet sitting" is next, a rebuke in terms of the mind. In saying "not dwelling": when Śāriputra enters concentration he dwells within, and when he emerges into distraction he is outside; meditating on the principle of dhyāna he dwells within, and meditating on the purity of dhyāna he is outside; entering the cessation concentration he dwells within, and emerging from the cessation concentration he is outside. Thus his mind, dependent on inside and outside, entering and exiting, is agitated and scattered; how could this be called quiet seclusion? Therefore he is rebuked, saying "not necessarily". As a bodhisattva progresses toward the Buddha's wisdom and contemplates the dharma-nature of the Middle Way, he does not even see nirvāṇa and saṃsāra, or an inside and outside in which one could dwell or abide; how could there be a cessation concentration and an emerging distraction, an inside and outside in which one could dwell or abide? Having the distraction of the two extremes is not true quiet sitting, and so it is said "not necessarily". Now, for a bodhisattva to merge his mind with the dharma-nature, unconfused and untasting, is the inconceivable true quiet sitting.