法華經義記 6.3

6.3

Second, "Then the messenger ran swiftly to go and seize him": this is the correspondence to tentative adaptation using the Great Vehicle teaching; this corresponds to the line in the burning house above, "I should use a robe-lap, a desk or a table to take them out of the house." Of the two regarding the second, the correspondence to the lack of capacity for exhortation: "The poor son was alarmed and bewildered"—this is the first, explaining that there is the capacity for the small vehicle, human and celestial, and so forth. Above, in the burning house parable, regarding the explanation of the lack of capacity, there were originally two: first, stating "This house has only one gate, which moreover is narrow and small," explaining that the great teaching was of no use to them. Now, it does not correspond to this, but only directly corresponds to the lack of capacity, which originally had two: first explaining that there was the small, and next explaining that there was no great. Now this single line corresponds to having the small capacity, which is the line "The sons were childish and immature." The tentative adaptation with the Great Vehicle teaching was not what was expected; hence it says "alarmed and bewildered." From "crying out in grievance and shouting aloud" downwards is the second, corresponding to the lack of capacity for the Great [Vehicle], which is the line above, "They were not yet aware of anything." If I had the Great Vehicle capacity and went transgressing against your Great Vehicle teaching, you might have the Great Vehicle teaching come to seize me; since I lack the great, why am I seized? Therefore he cried out in grievance and shouted aloud.