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維摩經略疏垂裕記 8.39

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8.39

Second, from "this Distinct..." downward, regarding the Perfect [Teaching], which has two parts: first, distinguishing the Distinct and relying on the Perfect. Jingxi says: Regarding this Distinct Teaching being convenient, because it relies on the *Renwang [Sūtra]*, it does not establish the thirty minds as the stages for severing ignorance. Furthermore, the single stage of Cloud of Dharma is divided into three grades; thus it constitutes the Distinct [Teaching]. Moreover, there is teaching without persons [to embody it], so it cannot yet be relied upon and used. Now, in contrast to Tranquil Light, because one relies on the Perfect Teaching, the thirty minds of the Perfect Teaching are all causes and conditions. Second, from "although making..." downward, distinguishing the cause and relying on the effect. Jingxi says: Regarding "cannot yet be definitively used," although previously the intermediate and lower meanings of Tranquil Light were established by contrasting the two teachings of Distinct and Perfect and the presence or absence of Equal Enlightenment, it is not as good as definitively establishing only the superior grade, not to mention temporarily borrowing the terminology of the masters of the *Mahāyānasaṃgraha*.

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