金光明最勝王經疏 4.540

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贊曰：二答也。有者，簡持義。一切眾生有能知依他起性心心數法如幻人等，則能解此甚深之法。若無大性，不能如是。此意能知遍計是無，如幻非實人，若似人相似，心心數依他幻有，即悟唯識證圓成性。此依漸入三性道理，初了遍計、次悟依他、後證圓實。如有頌言「於繩起蛇覺，見繩了義無。證見彼分時，知如蛇智亂。」或可寄執實眾生問，此答實生如眾幻人，無有實人。說此解者，欲顯能聞法人尚自非有，如何得解法？如《無垢稱經》舍利子問天女云：「汝於此沒，當生何處？」答云：「如來所化當所生處，我當生彼。」舍利子言：「如來所化無沒無生，云何答得言當所生處？」天女云：「諸法有情應知亦爾無沒無生，云何問我當生何所？」

The commentary says: Second, the answer. 'As many as there are' has the sense of selection. If all sentient beings have minds and mental factors of other-dependent nature (paratantra-svabhāva) that can be known to be like illusory persons and the like, then they can understand this profound Dharma. If they lack the great nature, they cannot be like this. The meaning is that if one can know that the imaginary nature (parikalpita-svabhāva) is non-existent, like an illusory non-real person, yet resembling a person, and that the minds and mental factors of other-dependent nature are illusorily existent, one then awakens to vijñaptimātra and realizes the consummate nature (pariniṣpanna-svabhāva). This is based on the principle of gradually entering the three natures: first discerning the imaginary, next awakening to the other-dependent, and finally realizing the consummate reality. As a verse says: 'Conceiving a snake with respect to a rope, seeing the rope, one completely realizes its non-existence. When one realizes and sees its parts, one knows the snake-cognition was like a delusion.' Or it may be that the question was framed relying on sentient beings who grasp reality, and this answer shows that real sentient beings are like illusory persons, there being no real person. Speaking of this understanding is intended to reveal that the person capable of hearing the Dharma is fundamentally non-existent; how then could they understand the Dharma? As in the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra, Śāriputra asked the goddess: 'Passing away from here, where will you be born?' She replied: 'Where the Tathāgata's emanations are to be born, there I will be born.' Śāriputra said: 'The Tathāgata's emanations have neither passing away nor birth; how can you answer that you will be born in that place?' The goddess said: 'All phenomena and sentient beings should likewise be known to have neither passing away nor birth; why do you ask me where I will be born?'