[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [妙法蓮華經玄義](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716) › 10.62 # 妙法蓮華經玄義 10.62 妙法蓮華經玄義 10.62 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [10.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.10.62) 三、不定教者，此無別法，但約頓、漸，其義自明。今依《大經》二十七云：「置毒乳中，乳即殺人，酪、蘇、醍醐亦能殺人。」此謂過去佛所，甞聞大乘實相之教，譬之以毒。今值釋迦聲教，其毒即發，結惑人死。若如提謂波利，但聞五戒，不起法忍，三百人得信忍，四天王得柔順忍，皆服長樂之藥，佩長生之符，住於戒中，見諸佛母，即是乳中殺人也。酪中殺人者，如《智度論》云：「教有二種：一、顯露教。二、祕密教。」顯露者，初轉法輪，五比丘及八萬諸天得法眼淨。若祕密教，無量菩薩得無生法忍。此是毒至於酪而能殺人也。生蘇中殺人者，有諸菩薩，於方等大乘教得見佛性，住大涅槃，即其義也。熟蘇殺人者，有諸菩薩，於摩訶般若教得見佛性，即其義也。醍醐殺人者，如涅槃教中，鈍根聲聞開發慧眼，得見佛性，乃至鈍根緣覺、菩薩七種方便，皆入究竟涅槃，即其義也。是名不定教相也，非不定部。 > Third, the indeterminate teaching: this has no separate dharma; its meaning becomes clear simply in reference to the sudden and gradual. Now relying on Chapter Twenty-Seven of the Great Sūtra \[Nirvāṇa Sūtra\], which says: 'If poison is placed into milk, the milk will kill people; curd, butter, and ghee can also kill people.' This means that having once heard the teaching of the real mark of the Mahāyāna in the presence of past Buddhas is compared to poison. Now encountering Śākyamuni's spoken teachings, that poison is activated, and the person of defilements dies. If, as in the case of Trapuṣa and Bhallika, they only heard the five precepts without generating forbearance of dharmas, yet three hundred people attained forbearance of faith and the Four Heavenly Kings attained pliable forbearance, all taking the medicine of eternal joy, wearing the amulet of long life, dwelling in the precepts, and seeing the mother of all Buddhas—this is killing people in milk. Killing people in curd: as the Upadeśa says, 'The teachings are of two kinds: first, the manifest teaching; second, the secret teaching.' As for the manifest, when the wheel of Dharma was first turned, the five bhikṣus and eighty thousand devas attained the purity of the Dharma eye. As for the secret teaching, immeasurable bodhisattvas attained the forbearance of the non-arising of dharmas. This is poison reaching curd and being able to kill people. Killing people in fresh butter: there are bodhisattvas who, in the vaipulya Mahāyāna teachings, come to see the buddha-nature and dwell in the great nirvāṇa—this is its meaning. Killing people in clarified butter: there are bodhisattvas who, in the Mahāprajñāpāramitā teachings, come to see the buddha-nature—this is its meaning. Killing people in ghee: as in the nirvāṇa teaching, śrāvakas of dull faculties develop the wisdom eye and come to see the buddha-nature, and even dull-facultied pratyekabuddhas and the seven kinds of skillful means of bodhisattvas all enter into ultimate nirvāṇa—this is its meaning. This is called the characteristic of the indeterminate teaching, not the indeterminate section. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.10.61) - [Next: 10.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.10.63) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716~en-mt.10.62) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.10.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.10.62) · Pramāṇa