摩訶止觀 8.63

8.63

As when [Vimalakīrti] reclined in Vaiśālī, using sickness as a pretext to initiate teachings, taking the physical illness of his body to instruct ordinary people, reproving the small and praising the great, and together with Mañjuśrī extensively elucidating the three kinds of subduing regarding causal sickness, and extensively elucidating the four kinds of consolation regarding fruition sickness. Furthermore, the Tathāgata's lodging in extinction to speak of permanence, and speaking of strength on the occasion of sickness, were all skillful means of entering the Dharma-gate of sickness to draw in all sickness and afflictions. Such provisional sickness is not what is contemplated at present.