維摩經略疏垂裕記 1.124

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五、明往生，二：初、列章。二、隨釋，二：初、總示。「亦云來生具如大品」者，暹云：《大品》第二「舍利弗白佛言：『世尊！菩薩摩訶薩行般若波羅密，能如是習相應者，從何處終來生此間？從此間終當生何處？』佛告舍利弗：『是菩薩或從他方佛國來生此間，或從兜率來生此間，或從人道來生此間。』」「從此」下，今師釋二名也。此云往生。《大品》云「來生」，秖是彼此相望得名耳。「二土亦然」者，荊溪云：二同居土相望既爾，有餘、實報相望亦然。「但橫竪異耳」者，二同居土橫，望餘二土名之為竪。若爾，秖可娑婆而往於淨，何以從淨却生此耶？答：下之八品不可來生，上品上生或可即能到彼土已獲通故來。《法華》云「是人自捨清淨業報，而來樂此多怒害處。」唯常寂光文無往義，上品可爾，中下義通。若中下無，實報亦無。若不立於中下，猶屬實報故也。又若義立不往而往，上品亦通，何但中下？善逝之言良有以也，如來之義信亦不無。

Fifth, explaining rebirth, in two parts: first, listing the headings; second, explaining them in turn, in two parts: first, a general presentation. Regarding "It is also called coming to be born, fully as in the *Large Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra*," Daoxian says: The second chapter of the *Large Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra* states, "Śāriputra said to the Buddha: 'World-Honoured One! Where did the bodhisattva mahāsattva practicing the perfection of wisdom, who is able to cultivate accord in this way, pass away from to come to be born here? Passing away from here, where will they be born?' The Buddha told Śāriputra: 'This bodhisattva either passed away from a Buddha-land in another direction to come to be born here, or passed away from Tuṣita to come to be born here, or passed away from the human realm to come to be born here.'" From "From here..." onward, our master explains the two designations. Here it says "going to be born" (rebirth); the *Large Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra* says "coming to be born"; these are merely designations formed by viewing one from the other. Regarding "The two lands are also like this," Jingxi says: Just as it is so when viewing the two Co-dwelling lands from one another, it is also like this when viewing With-Remainder and True Reward from one another. Regarding "There is only the difference of horizontal and vertical": the two Co-dwelling lands are horizontal; viewed in relation to the other two lands, they are called vertical. If so, one can only go from the Sahā world to the Pure [Land]; why would one be born here from the Pure [Land] instead? Answer: The lower eight grades cannot come to be born here; the highest level of the highest grade can perhaps do so immediately, having reached that land and obtained superknowledges, and thus comes. The *Lotus Sūtra* says: "This person willingly renounced their pure karmic retribution, and came to take delight in this place of much anger and harm." Only in the Constantly Quiescent Light text is there no sense of going: for the highest grade it may be so, but for the middle and lower, the principle applies. If the middle and lower did not have it, True Reward would also lack it. For if the middle and lower were not posited, it would still belong to True Reward. Furthermore, if one theoretically posits "going without going," the highest grade also applies; why only the middle and lower? The Sugata's words indeed have good reason, and the meaning of the Tathāgata is truly not absent.