法界圖記叢髓錄 2.54

2.54

In the seventh question-and-answer, the intention of the question is that eliminating distinctions and returning to the Middle Way can be discussed within the final teaching. Yet in terms of the utmost extreme, it says that this meaning corresponds to the doctrine of the sudden teaching. The intention of the answer is that Vimalakīrti swept away the words of Mañjuśrī and fell silent in a single quiescence. The silence of the Buddha in the eight assemblies was the silence of not stirring verbal expression; therefore they are distinct. That is, extinguishing speaking and not speaking, name and meaning, and root and branch, to make them return to the Middle Way, is tentatively spoken in accordance with the three vehicles. In terms of the true intention of the One Vehicle, not stirring name and meaning, root and branch, is precisely the true virtue within the house of dharmatā; therefore it does not correspond to the doctrine of the sudden teaching.