維摩經略疏 6.7

6.7

Question: Since the Common Teaching is the truth of extinction into nothingness, it merely generates wisdom; wisdom belongs to the practitioner and is spoken of as self, while the principle is merely the cognitive object and may be regarded as other. The Distinct [Teaching] clarifies the middle principle; why does it not agree with the Perfect, but agrees with the Common Teaching? Answer: Although its principle agrees with the Perfect, the capacities and teaching are not equivalent. The Distinct [Teaching] clarifies conditioned [cultivation directed toward] the true; although the true is eternal, the principle is not wisdom. Using wisdom to contemplate the principle has not yet brought forth true wisdom, and the wisdom of conditioned cultivation is not called eternal; therefore, it does not agree with the Perfect.