Dighanikaya 3.261

3.261

Vivari bhagavā dvāranti na bhagavā uṭṭhāya dvāraṃ vivari. Vivariyatūti pana hatthaṃ pasāresi. Tato ‘‘bhagavā tumhehi anekāsu kappakoṭīsu dānaṃ dadamānehi na sahatthā dvāravivaraṇakammaṃ kata’’nti sayameva dvāraṃ vivaṭaṃ. Taṃ pana yasmā bhagavato manena vivaṭaṃ, tasmā vivari bhagavā dvāranti vattuṃ vaṭṭati.

‘The Blessed One opened the door’ (vivari bhagavā dvāraṃ): the Blessed One did not get up and open the door. Rather, he stretched out his hand, thinking: ‘Let it be opened.’ Then, thinking: ‘Blessed One, while you gave gifts over many tens of millions of aeons, you did not perform the deed of opening doors with your own hand,’ the door opened of itself. But because it opened through the Blessed One's mental volition, it is therefore proper to say: ‘The Blessed One opened the door.’