淨名經集解關中疏 1.280

1.280

"This body has no person, being like water." The nature of water conforms to things, and people falsely grasp it as a person. Sengzhao states: "Being exalted among all things and unchanging from beginning to end is what is meant by 'person.' Yet external water benefits myriad forms; it is square or round according to objects, and varies according to depressions and elevations, having no fixed form of its own. If its form is not fixed, then water has no person. Since external water has no person, internal water can be known by analogy."