法華經義記 8.7

8.7

Next, explaining the fourth practice of ease and comfort: this practice explains taking loving-kindness and compassion as its substance; within it there are also two sections, namely the prose and the verse forming the two. Now, regarding the prose, within it there are themselves two sections: first, explaining the substance of the practice; second, from "Mañjuśrī..." downward, explaining the marks of the ease and comfort of attaining the fruit. Moreover, within these two sections each has two. The two within the first section: first, briefly explaining great loving-kindness; second, from "toward non-bodhisattvas..." downward, extensively explaining great compassion. "Not hearing" is precisely that hearing-wisdom was unaccomplished in the past; "not knowing" is precisely that thinking-wisdom was unaccomplished in the past; "not awakening" is precisely that cultivation-wisdom was unaccomplished in the past. How is this known? The three phrases below explain it: "Not hearing" explains the phrase "not hearing" above—in the past, if one had been able to hear these three vehicles, the meaning of hearing would have been accomplished; precisely because in the past one did not hear, the meaning of hearing was unaccomplished. "Not believing" explains the phrase "not knowing" above—precisely because in the past one did not believe the statement that within the One Buddha Vehicle it differentiatively teaches three, therefore one did not know the principle of returning to the same [destination]. "Not understanding" explains the phrase "not awakening" above—if in the past one had understood the meaning of returning to the same [destination], one would immediately have awakened to and known the meaning that there are no three.