維摩經略疏垂裕記 6.4

6.4

Second, explaining the function of food. Regarding 'the bodhisattva's supreme cause of food': Jingxi says, 'When a person of the perfect gate generates the mind to contemplate food, whether receiving or giving, the dharmadhātu is equal; only then is he competent to serve as the causal food for all, hence it is called supreme. This is precisely reproaching Kāśyapa by reproaching the small with the perfect. Thus, whenever giving and receiving obtain great benefit as a cause, both are harmed or benefited. "Harm and benefit" means that going to the poor benefits both, while going to the rich harms both; their mind being slighting and his practice being abandoned, both are harmed. As for "not making a loss upon a loss": Jingxi says: The hexagram Sun in the Book of Changes says, "Lose it and lose it again, until there is nothing lost." Now, citing this intention does not take "nothing lost," but merely borrows for a time the words "lose it again." Having eliminated defilements, one has already attained [nirvāṇa] with remainder; eliminating birth and death again, one enters [nirvāṇa] without remainder. For a bodhisattva it is not so; therefore it is not an example.'