妙法蓮華經玄義 10.189

10.189

然教必對人，人別各二：聲聞藏中有決定聲聞及退菩提心聲聞；菩薩藏中有頓悟大士有漸入菩薩。聲聞藏中決定聲聞者，久習別異善根，小心狹劣，成就小性，一向樂小；佛為說小，畢竟作證，不能趣大。言退菩提心聲聞者，是人甞於先佛及諸菩薩所發菩提心，但經生歷死，忘失本念，遂生小心，志願於小；佛為說小，終令趣大。然決定聲聞一向住小，退菩提心聲聞後能趣大。雖有去有住，而受小時一，故對此二人所說為聲聞藏。

However, teaching must be addressed to persons, and the persons are individually divided into two: within the śrāvaka-piṭaka there are determined śrāvakas and śrāvakas who have regressed from the bodhi-mind; within the bodhisattva-piṭaka there are suddenly awakening great beings and gradually entering bodhisattvas. As for the determined śrāvakas within the śrāvaka-piṭaka, having long practiced distinct good roots, their minds are small, narrow, and inferior; they have achieved a small nature and are exclusively fond of the small. The Buddha preached the small for them, and they ultimately attained realization, unable to proceed to the great. As for the śrāvakas who regressed from the bodhi-mind, these people once generated the bodhi-mind in the presence of past buddhas and bodhisattvas, but passing through birth and death, they forgot their original intention; consequently, a small mind arose, and their aspiration was toward the small. The Buddha preached the small for them, ultimately causing them to proceed to the great. However, while determined śrāvakas dwell exclusively in the small, the śrāvakas who regressed from the bodhi-mind are later able to proceed to the great. Although there is proceeding and remaining, the reception of the small is one; hence what was spoken for these two persons is the śrāvaka-piṭaka.