維摩經略疏垂裕記 5.43

5.43

Second, adorning the four blooming [trees], which has two parts: first, explaining descending traces to tune capacities. The text fully explains the four flavors tuning capacities. First, the Deer Park. "All came to take refuge": Śāriputra, Maudgalyāyana, the three Kāśyapas, and others who received and practiced the four withered [trees] were those who received the Tripiṭaka and realized the small fruit. "Disciples bowed like grass before the wind": like Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana together with their two hundred and fifty disciples, and so forth. *Mi* means to fall flat. All conformed to the Buddha's transformation, just as grass all bends when wind is applied to it. From "Passing beyond this" onward, next, Fangdeng. "All felt ashamed of the small and longed for the great": this intention encompasses the two curd [flavors]. From "Opening the Buddha's" onward, the *Lotus Sūtra* and *Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra*. "All because of reaching the Buddha's work": Jingxi says: "This clarifies that the various disciples fully underwent both the half-word and full-word teachings, all to mature and assist the Dharma King; hence now they fully passed through the teachings of his entire lifetime." "Sentient beings […] to opening the Buddha's knowledge and vision": this points to entering the secret treasury in the *Lotus Sūtra*, which is precisely the nirvāṇa in the middle in the *Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra*, intending to show that the grand purports of the two sūtras are identical.