経(維摩経)に説いていわく、「高原の陸地に蓮を生ぜず、卑湿淤泥に蓮華を生ず」これ凡夫煩悩の泥の中にありて、佛の正覚の華を生ずるに喩うなり.。
教行信証 証の巻より
From the Vimalakirtinirdesa Sutra--”on a high plateau, on the dry ground, no lotus grows. It is only in the muddy water that it blooms.” In like manner, ordinary beings are living mostly in the mud of evil passions. But owing to the instruction and guidance of the bodhisattva, they are able to bloom out as the flowers of the Supreme Enlightenment.
From Kyogyoshinsho The True Realization
