法華經義記 3.56

3.56

"Śāriputra, you should know that I see the Buddha's sons and others who aspire to seek the Buddha-path, immeasurable thousands of myriads of koṭis of them"—this one verse is the fifth [section]. Here this is designated as the Buddha seeing that the capacity for the Great Vehicle has arisen in the persons of the three vehicles. The arising of capacity accords with principle, hence it is said that they 'aspire to seek'. This serves as the basis for the fifth parable below in the burning house, where the elder sees the sons escape the disaster; it corresponds to the passage below stating, "At that time the elder saw that the sons had emerged safely from the burning house…"