維摩經略疏 5.142

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5.142

Maitreya knew their capacities; why did he conceal the real and employ the provisional so as to incur rebuke and refutation? Answer: Those sons of heaven appropriately needed to hear the provisional teaching first. Thus Maitreya used the provisional as an anvil, wishing to reveal the hammer of Vimalakīrti's real teaching, jointly completing the spiritual vessels of those sons of heaven; hence he manifested receiving rebuke and refutation. Among them, there may also have been some who, upon hearing Maitreya expound the perfect [teaching], failed to grasp its correct intent, and upon hearing the rebuke of Maitreya, were immediately able to enter it.

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