維摩經略疏 5.31

5.31

Question: What are the characteristics of accommodating existence and non-existence in the five meanings? Answer: For instance, regarding the two gates of existence and emptiness, two masters each judged them, diverging sharply at first sight. Now the *Kǒnlè lùn* accommodates existence and non-existence, relying on this to enter the Way, and in turn used this to broadly explain the five meanings to the monks. Piṅgala's commentary on the *Mūlamadhyamakakārikā* says, "Those who enter the Way through a little existence and a little non-existence are people of dull faculties." Fearing that this accommodation lacked resolution, he classified them as belonging to dull faculties. Or perhaps Kātyāyana, because of this accommodation, broadly explained the five meanings but could not make a decisive judgment to cause them to enter the Way, thus incurring rebuke. This, then, is the reason for his incompetence.