萬善同歸集 1.27

1.27

答：「無心寂現，此是了因；福德莊嚴，須從緣起。二因雙備，佛體方成。諸大乘經無不具載。《淨名經》云：『佛身者，即法身也；從無量功德、智慧生，從慈、悲、喜、捨生，從布施、持戒、忍辱柔和、勤行精進、禪定、解脫、三昧、多聞、智慧諸波羅蜜生，乃至從斷一切不善法、集一切善法生如來身。』又云：『具福德故，不住無為；具智慧故，不盡有為；大慈悲故，不住無為；滿本願故，不盡有為。』此乃自背圓詮，不遵佛語。擬捉涅槃之縛，欲沈解脫之坑；栽蓮華於高原，植甘種於空界，欲求菩提華果，何出得成？所以云：『入無為正位者，不生佛法耳。乃至譬如不下巨海，不能得無價寶珠；如是不入煩惱大海，則不能得一切智寶。』」

Answer: "Mindlessness serenely manifesting—this is the revealing cause; adornment of merit and virtue must arise from conditions. When both causes are fully equipped, only then is the Buddha-body accomplished. None of the Mahāyāna sūtras fails to record this completely. The Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Sūtra says: 'The Buddha-body is indeed the dharmakāya; it is born from immeasurable merit and wisdom; it is born from loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity; it is born from the pāramitās of giving, keeping the precepts, forbearance and gentleness, zealous vigor, dhyāna meditation, liberation, samādhi, much learning, and wisdom; up to being born from severing all unwholesome dharmas and accumulating all wholesome dharmas is the Tathāgata's body born.' It also says: 'Because he is equipped with merit, he does not abide in the unconditioned; because he is equipped with wisdom, he does not exhaust the conditioned; because of great loving-kindness and compassion, he does not abide in the unconditioned; because of fulfilling his original vows, he does not exhaust the conditioned.' This [objection of yours] is turning one's back on the complete teaching and failing to obey the Buddha's words. You intend to take hold of the bondage of nirvāṇa and wish to sink into the pit of liberation; planting a lotus flower upon a high plateau, sowing sweet seeds in empty space—wishing thus to seek the flowers and fruits of bodhi, how could they ever be accomplished? Therefore it says: 'Those who enter the correct station of the unconditioned do not generate the Buddha-dharma. […] Up to: just as without entering the great ocean, one cannot obtain the priceless jewel; so too, without entering the great ocean of afflictions, one cannot obtain the jewel of all-knowledge.'"