淨名經集解關中疏 2.150

2.150

The goddess said: "Śāriputra, if you can change out of this female body, then all women will likewise be able to change. Just as Śāriputra is not a woman yet manifests a female body, all women are also like this: although they manifest female bodies, they are not women." Third, explanation. If Śāriputra himself realizes that although through spiritual powers he has transformed into a woman, his true nature is not female, he will also realize that although all women transform into women through deluded minds, their Dharma-nature is not female. Furthermore, he knows that although the goddess manifests as a woman out of great compassion, her dharmakāya is not female. If one can realize that a woman is not a woman, then all women are also like this—this is called "changing." Zhao says: "Just as Śāriputra is genuinely not a woman yet now manifests as one, this female appearance is genuinely not female. That the realms have no fixed characteristics may be known by analogy from this."