金光明經文句記 6.24

6.24

Second, from "due to medical [skills]" downward, explains the title. This king of Vaipulya sūtras marks "curing illness" as its heading; it does not merely cure the painful illnesses of retributive fruition, but in principle must encompass the ten kinds of illnesses of evil karma and afflictions. Thus the text below says: "Curing all the suffering of illness possessed by sentient beings, causing them all to be eradicated." The intent of the text encompasses the ten kinds of practitioners. Therefore, the commentary on the preceding "Chapter on Proper Treatises" says: "It is half called a worldly treatise, and half called a world-transcending treatise." How could it not be so here? Moreover, Jingxi says: "Those of superior faculties generate the fruit directly upon [contemplating] the seed of the objective realm." Thus the text says: "Just upon hearing these words, their illnesses were immediately cured." For those of middling and lower faculties, later methods are further required; therefore the text says: "Going to the elder's place, where he compounded various medicines for them." Thus we know it does not cure only retributive illnesses.