維摩經略疏垂裕記 9.4

9.4

Second, specific explanation, which has two: First, marking and listing. Second, direct explanation, which has three: First, ordinary persons, which has two: First, marking. Second, from "belonging to" below, explaining, which has two: First, craving. Jingxi says: "Belonging to craving are wholesome sensations" and so forth: wholesome and unwholesome each have three, hence combining with asuras they constitute the lower ten wholesome deeds. However, in "yet experiencing all sensations", fully and extensively making marks according to stages and ranks is intended to briefly clarify the detailed marks of sensations of bodhisattvas emerging into the provisional, so that later learners, making the cause for emerging into the provisional, may first fully illuminate them as an expedient. Second, views. Second, the two vehicles, which has two: First, the Tripiṭaka. Jingxi says: "Nirvāṇa of eliminating the three minds": that is, the three emptinesses. Second, the common. The ten similes are as in the previous record. "Having long known non-arising arising": contrasting non-arising arising with the common [teaching], it is like dreams and illusions, pointing to emptiness and speaking of arising. Third, bodhisattvas, which has two: First, directly explaining. Second, critical appraisal. Jingxi says: "Contemplating this" and so forth: however, as for the perfect [teaching] of this contemplation in its common aspect, the previous two contemplations speak only of emptiness and the provisional, and there is not yet "one in the middle, all in the middle." Therefore, one must further clarify the four gates of the perfect teaching, because the beginning and end of the four gates of the perfect teaching all completely enter the middle; therefore, one must further speak of the third contemplation.