維摩經略疏垂裕記 6.9

6.9

Second, declining as not up to the task has two [parts]: first, dividing the sections; second, commenting on them accordingly, in four [parts]: first, directly declining as not up to the task. Second, narrating the reasons for not being up to the task. As for 'none dared to peer at his gate': "to peer" (闚) is pronounced with the fanqie qu-sui, meaning to glance. In the text it is written as "to look" (視), which is an error. Jingxi says: As for 'none dared to peer at his gate': could it be that the ten virtues and five hundred, the four great [disciples] and eight thousand, had none ever visited his house? It is spoken to show that Subhūti's relying on emptiness was extremely flawed. As for 'those who cling to existence,' etc.: this narrates that Subhūti considered all persons of the Small Vehicle and all bodhisattvas to be persons who cling to existence, and thus considered that none approached his gate. [He thought:] Since I understand emptiness, what fear have I in going straight there?