摩訶止觀 7.109

7.109

若小象子，雖捍刀箭，必為所中，自他無益。初心菩薩欲入生死，生死觸之，失退善根，法身破壞，雖然發大悲心功德可歎。故菩薩雖怖生死而恒求善本，荷負眾生，不同二乘；雖住生死，非貪五欲，但為兼濟，不同凡夫。經云：「不住調伏，不住不調伏；雖知無我，而誨人不倦；雖知涅槃，而不永滅；雖知不淨，不說厭離。」即此義也。

It is like a small calf of an elephant: although attempting to shield against swords and arrows, it will certainly be struck, bringing no benefit to self or others. When a bodhisattva of initial aspiration wishes to enter birth and death, when touched by birth and death, their roots of goodness regress and are lost, and the dharmakāya is damaged; nevertheless, their generating of the mind of great compassion has commendable merit. Therefore, although the bodhisattva fears birth and death, they constantly seek the roots of goodness and shoulder sentient beings, not like the two vehicles; although dwelling in birth and death, it is not out of craving for the five desires, but solely to bring universal deliverance, not like ordinary people. A sūtra says: 'Not abiding in taming, not abiding in non-taming; though knowing non-self, teaching people untiringly; though knowing nirvāṇa, not entering eternal cessation; though knowing impurity, not speaking of revulsion.' This is precisely this meaning.