[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [維摩經略疏垂裕記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1779) › 4.59 # 維摩經略疏垂裕記 4.59 維摩經略疏垂裕記 4.59 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1779.4.59) 八、禮備。「歎形心」者，荊溪云：上句形也，下句心也。「含弘」者，弘，大也。「又住」下，《左傳》曰「有威而可畏謂之威，有儀而可則謂之儀。」「學佛象王迴視」者，荊溪云：且寄應佛之儀式也。人倣此，未必全然。有言：具佛相好者，前約儀式解威儀，此約狀貌解威儀。「今言」下，今正釋，謂常冥至極、遍應十界，故曰不起等。亦猶《周易》云「寂然不動，感而遂通」矣。此言雖近，可以例遠。「八不思議」者，一漸漸深入、二深難得底、三同一鹹味、四潮不過限、五有種種寶藏、六大身眾生在中居住、七不宿死屍、八萬流投之不增不減。經文備以《涅槃》八義合之，故云「佛法亦爾」等也。「今言」下，心大如海，亦具八義，例同《涅槃》。如下文「此室內現八未曾有」，即佛性海諸法具足，今文且用不增減一。「眾流」等者，九道常投而佛界不增，種智常煎而生界不減。以九道不斷性善、佛果不斷性惡，故無增減。應具以二句合之，九道雖投，而由心無取故不增；種智雖觀，而由心無捨故不減。此則具於事理二釋。「沃焦」，山名，能縮海水。 > Eighth, complete propriety. "Praising form and mind": Jingxi says: "The former phrase is form, the latter phrase is mind." "Containing greatness" (含弘): "弘" means great. "Further abiding..." onwards: the Zuo Zhuan says: "Having awe and inspiring dread is called majestic; having deportment that can be modeled is called deportment." "Emulating the Buddha turning back like an elephant king": Jingxi says: "This tentatively borrows the ceremonial decorum of a response Buddha. When humans emulate this, it is not necessarily entirely so." Some say: possessing the Buddha's marks and characteristics; the former explains deportment in terms of ceremony, while the latter explains deportment in terms of physical appearance. "Now it is said..." onwards: now directly explaining, it means constantly merging with the ultimate and responding universally to the ten realms, hence it is said "not rising," etc. It is also like the Book of Changes: "Silent and unmoving, when stimulated it penetrates throughout." Though this statement is close \[at hand\], it can exemplify what is distant. "Eight unfathomable qualities": first, gradually deepening; second, profound and hard to reach the bottom; third, identical in the single salty taste; fourth, the tide does not exceed its limit; fifth, having various treasure stores; sixth, beings of great bodies dwell within it; seventh, it does not harbor dead corpses; eighth, the myriad streams flow into it without increasing or decreasing. The sūtra text fully matches them with the eight meanings in the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, hence it says "The Buddha-dharma is also like this," etc. "Now it is said..." onwards: the mind being as great as an ocean also possesses the eight meanings, exemplified identically to the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra. As the text below says, "Within this room appear eight things never seen before," which means all dharmas are fully possessed in the ocean of Buddha-nature; the present text provisionally uses the one about neither increasing nor decreasing. "The myriad streams..." and so forth: the nine paths constantly flow in, yet the Buddha realm does not increase; the all-inclusive wisdom constantly boils, yet the realm of sentient beings does not decrease. Because the nine paths do not sever the goodness of their nature, and the Buddha fruit does not sever the evil of its nature, there is neither increase nor decrease. This should be matched fully with two phrases: although the nine paths flow in, because the mind grasps nothing, it does not increase; although all-inclusive wisdom contemplates, because the mind abandons nothing, it does not decrease. This then completes both the phenomenal and the principle explanations. "Wojiao": the name of a mountain capable of shrinking the ocean waters. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1779.4.58) - [Next: 4.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1779.4.60) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1779.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1779~en-mt.4.59) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1779.4.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1779.4.59) · Pramāṇa