分別功德論 5.3

5.3

所以稱婆陀比丘解人疑滯者，三世諸佛皆共八萬四千以為行法，眾生得道不必遍行眾行，隨其所寤處以為宗。何者？眾生結使不同，病有多少、垢有厚薄，是故如來設教若干，或有一藥治眾病，或有眾藥治一病。猶六度相統，一行為主、眾行悉從。一行者，不專常名，隨病所起，對藥應之。若計常起，以無常對之；若計有心起，以空心對之。當其無常領行，萬行皆無常也。猶施造八萬，八萬皆為施，所謂略說者也。猶如來八音中，一音統八響，一響統百教，一教統百義，一一相領至千萬億，一音報萬億，其變如是。略說統行，其喻亦爾。此比丘專以略說為主，故稱第一也。

As for why the monk Bāpa is declared foremost in dispelling people’s doubts and hesitations: All the Buddhas of the three times share eighty-four thousand practices as the Dharma to be practiced, but sentient beings need not traverse all practices to attain the Way; they take as fundamental wherever their awakening occurs. Why is this? Sentient beings’ fetters are not the same; their afflictions vary in number, and their defilements differ in thickness. For this reason, the Tathāgata set forth various teachings. In some cases, a single medicine cures many afflictions; in other cases, many medicines cure a single affliction. It is like the six perfections governing one another: one practice serves as the master, and all other practices follow it. As for that single practice, it does not hold exclusively to an unchanging name; it arises in response to the affliction, matched with its corresponding medicine. If a conception of permanence arises, one counters it with impermanence; if a mind conceiving existence arises, one counters it with a mind of emptiness. When impermanence directs practice, all myriad practices become impermanence. Just as when giving generates eighty thousand [practices], all eighty thousand are acts of giving; this is what is called the abridged explanation. It is like the eight sounds of the Tathāgata: a single sound commands eight resonances, a single resonance commands a hundred teachings, a single teaching commands a hundred meanings, and each in turn commands another up to thousands of millions; one sound responds in thousands of millions, its transformations being like this. The abridged explanation governing practices is also illustrated by this analogy. This monk focused primarily on the abridged explanation, and was therefore declared foremost.