楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 4.28

4.28

'In this Sahā world' and so forth exemplifies thirty-three alternative names. First it states that fools all hear them and each speak my names, meaning that each name has its own significance; but they do not understand my alternative names as Tathāgata, which means they do not know that their substance is one, rooted in neither arising nor cessation. Up to saying, 'such three asaṃkhyeyas of hundreds of thousands of names and titles.' 'Asaṃkhyeya' is translated here as 'countless ages'; these are the traces of the Tathāgata's teaching and transforming after attaining the fruit. Saying 'hundreds of thousands of names and titles neither increase nor decrease' means that whichever single name is brought forth, it embraces all names of dharmas; in multiplicity it does not increase, and in oneness it does not decrease; this realm and other realms all know the Buddha's names. Saying 'like the moon in the water, neither emerging nor entering': the moon is a metaphor for the response body, and the water is a metaphor for the minds of sentient beings. When the minds of sentient beings are pure, the Tathāgata responds, like the moon in the water. Yet the moon remains in space while its reflection appears in water; the moon does not descend, hence it is said 'not entering,' nor does it depart from the water, hence it is said 'not emerging.'