御注金剛般若波羅蜜經宣演 2.148

2.148

Sūtra says: “Subhūti, […] ‘I will cross over sentient beings.’”
Exposition: Below is the instruction establishing the ultimate truth. That is, when establishing the benefit of the Dharma to cross over sentient beings, one should not generate the view of sentient beings. Relying on the instruction of the ultimate truth, the classes of bodhisattvas on the stages should cross over sentient beings just as the Tathāgata does, without the conception of real sentient beings; hence there is this text. In that treatise, it is to sever the twenty-first doubt about whether the Buddha can cross over sentient beings. The doubt says: “If the mark of equality of dharmas has neither higher nor lower, why is the Tathāgata said to cross over sentient beings?” The meaning of the doubt is that the Buddha and sentient beings are not separate from tathatā; tathatā is equal and said to have neither higher nor lower; how can it be said that the Buddha crosses over those lower classes of sentient beings? The verse says: