仁王護國般若經疏 4.32

4.32

From "the bodhisattvas of the ten virtues" downward, the second [part] separately praises the fourteen patiences in verse. The text has five [sections]: first, nine lines praise the patience of subduing; second, ten lines praise the patience of faith; third, eight lines praise the patience of compliance; fourth, ten lines praise the patience of non-arising; fifth, eight lines praise the patience of quiescence. The first text has two [parts]: the first two lines praise the expedient means of the patience of subduing, namely the ten faiths; then there are seven lines praising the merits of the patience of subduing, namely the three ranks of worthies. The first text has two [parts]: first, one line clarifies leaving faults behind; next, one line clarifies encompassing the stages. Now, the first. The ancients said: Because bodhisattvas of the ten faiths generate the great mind seeking to escape the three realms, although not yet able to escape, they are already able to keep far away from the sufferings of the evil destinies and the like; hence it is called "parting forever." Now, this is not so. If they are the ten faiths of the distinctive teaching, they are external ordinary beings; not yet able to leave [sufferings] even temporarily, how could they part [with them] forever? If they are the ten faiths of the perfect teaching, they sever the delusions of the three realms, and upon reaching the beginning of the ten abodes they sever the delusions of ignorance and the like outside the realms; because they merely sever the four dwellings of the three realms, they are equal to arhats, parting forever with the sea of suffering, and are born together with people of the two vehicles in the land of expedient means with remainder. If they are arhats and pratyekabuddhas, upon meeting another buddha in that land who expounds the Lotus Sūtra for them, they instantly become bodhisattvas and proceed to sever ignorance. If they are bodhisattvas of the ten faiths, even without having heard the Lotus, they can also gradually sever ignorance on their own; how could merely not being born into evil destinies be considered parting forever with the sea of suffering?