淨名經集解關中疏 2.336

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Vimalakīrti said: "The great compassion of the bodhisattvas of this land toward sentient beings is firm and solid, truly as you have said. Yet their benefiting sentient beings in a single lifetime surpasses hundreds of thousands of kalpas of practice in that land." (Fourth, affirming the truth. The reason he does not affirm the Buddha is that the Buddha's path-power is complete. The text has two parts; this is the first, explaining the benefit. To transform the good deeply brings little merit, but to transform the evil brings deep merit. Sengrui says: "Practicing long without merit is not as good as being near at hand and producing benefit.")