妙法蓮華經玄義 10.116

10.116

自有一人稟一味，如華嚴中純一根性，即得醍醐，不歷五味也。《大經》云：「雪山有草，牛若食者，即得醍醐。」自有一人歷五味，如小乘根性於頓如乳，三藏如酪，乃至醍醐，方乃究竟。如《大經》云：「從牛出乳，乃至蘇出醍醐。」自有利根菩薩，未入位聲聞，或於三藏中見性，是歷二味。自有方等中見性，是歷三味。般若中見性，是歷四味，如三百比丘。《大經》云：「置毒乳中，遍五味中，悉能殺人。」即此意也。

There is a case where one person receives one flavor: as in the Avataṃsaka, those of pure and unified capacity immediately obtain clarified butter without passing through the five flavors. The Great Sūtra says: 'In the Snowy Mountains there is a grass; if cattle eat it, they immediately produce clarified butter.' There is a case where one person passes through the five flavors: as for those of the Small Vehicle capacity, in the sudden [teaching] it is like milk, in the Tripiṭaka it is like curd, and only upon reaching clarified butter is it finally ultimate. As the Great Sūtra says: 'From the cow comes milk, up to from butter comes clarified butter.' There are also bodhisattvas of keen capacity and śrāvakas who have not entered the ranks who perhaps see the nature within the Tripiṭaka, which is passing through two flavors. There are those who see the nature in the Vaipulya, which is passing through three flavors. Those who see the nature in Prajñā pass through four flavors, such as the three hundred bhikṣus. The Great Sūtra says: 'If poison is placed in milk, throughout all five flavors it can kill anyone.' This is precisely the meaning.