金光明經文句記 6.179

6.179

二、「聲聞」下一行半，約聖凡未發性明。即樹神擊請今佛出定也。佛雖在定，明了性淨猶如瑠璃表裏通徹，照機起應皆不動於寂定。如來雖久已明了，其如眾生未發上定，故樹神頻請出現發悟斯機，乃舉六喻顯乎聲聞色體非性明體，所證真理閴寂無知，如空之虛無、亦燈之烟焰、術之所幻、聲之谷響、神通之化、水中之月皆非實性，不能即寂即現也。眾生之性虛妄現在，如夢所見都無實相。

Second, the line and a half from "Śrāvakas..." concerns the fact that neither noble ones nor ordinary beings have yet brought forth the radiance of [buddha-]nature. This is the tree goddess entreating and requesting the present Buddha to emerge from samādhi. Although the Buddha is in samādhi, his nature is clearly purified like lapis lazuli, transparent inside and out; illuminating capacities and giving rise to responses, he is wholly unmoved from quiescent samādhi. Although the Tathāgata has long since understood clearly, sentient beings have not yet brought forth this superior samādhi; therefore, the tree goddess repeatedly requests his appearance to awaken these capacities. She then adduces six similes to show that the physical bodies of śrāvakas are not the radiant body of the nature, and the true principle they realize is desolate, quiescent, and without awareness—like the vacuity of space, the smoke and flame of a lamp, the illusion of sorcery, an echo in a valley, a magical transformation by supernormal powers, or the moon in water, none of which possess real nature, and are incapable of being simultaneously quiescent and manifest. Sentient beings' nature is falsely present, entirely devoid of real marks, like what is seen in a dream.