法華經義記 6.45

6.45

The questioner asks again: “If you make the bodhisattva have the meaning of growth to serve as the parable for the two trees, my śrāvakas also have the meaning of growth to serve as the parable for the medicinal herbs, not using the meaning of ignorance to serve as the parable for the medicinal herbs.” The commentator explains again: “This chapter originally aimed to relate the four great śrāvakas' attainment of understanding today by first speaking of their past failure to understand; hence it uses the grass as a parable. In speaking of receiving moisture without knowing, the śrāvakas and others retain the aspect of not knowing, while the bodhisattvas retain the aspect of growth.”