維摩經義記卷第四 4.44

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於是維摩詰文殊已下第二段。文殊言今正是時。今若詣佛正是利益之時也。因詣佛故有七事利益。第一因詣佛故得與大眾禮事供養表病非實。第二因詣佛故明佛事無方成上香飯實益。第三因詣佛故得明上方菩薩請佛為說有盡無盡解脫法門。第四因詣佛故得明法身出百非之表以遣諸人執實之心。第五因詣佛故得顯淨名生處見妙喜國不動如來。第六因詣佛故得明法供養即是封印淨名之所說。第七因諸佛故得明屬累彌勒委付阿難流通此經千載之下流傳不絕。於意云何者。汝為當目見而已亦在意地解其所以。世尊我覩其為非意所圖非度所測者。我目覩其事。非是意地所量。亦非忖度之所能測也。

From “Then Vimalakīrti [spoke to] Mañjuśrī…” onwards is the second section. Mañjuśrī says, “Now is precisely the time.” If we go to the Buddha now, it is precisely the time for benefit. Due to going to the Buddha, there are seven benefits: First, due to going to the Buddha, one can pay homage, serve, and make offerings together with the great assembly, demonstrating that the illness is not real. Second, due to going to the Buddha, it makes clear that buddha-works are without fixed form, fulfilling the real benefit of the fragrant food above. Third, due to going to the Buddha, it can make clear that the bodhisattvas from the higher realm request the Buddha to preach for them the dharma door of exhaustible and inexhaustible liberation. Fourth, due to going to the Buddha, it can make clear that the dharmakāya transcends the hundred negations, in order to dispel everyone's mind of clinging to real existence. Fifth, due to going to the Buddha, it can reveal Vimalakīrti's birthplace and display the Tathāgata Akṣobhya of the Abhirati realm. Sixth, due to going to the Buddha, it can make clear that Dharma-offering is precisely the sealing and ratifying of what Vimalakīrti has spoken. Seventh, due to [approaching] the Buddha, it can make clear the entrustment to Maitreya and commissioning of Ānanda to transmit this sūtra, so that it will circulate without end for thousands of years. As for “What do you think?”, it means: “Did you merely see it with your eyes, or did you also understand its reason in your mental sphere?” As for “Bhagavat, what I observed was not to be planned by the intellect, nor measured by deliberation,” it means: What I observed with my eyes cannot be measured by the mental sphere, nor can it be gauged by deliberation.