妙法蓮華經玄義 10.69

10.69

如此等初頓，未必純教法身菩薩，亦有凡夫大根性者。即有兩義，當體圓頓得悟者，即是醍醐。初心之人，雖聞大教，始入十信，最是初味，初能生後，復是於乳。何者？雖言是頓，或乘戒俱急，或戒緩乘急，如此業生，無由自致，必須應生，引入七處八會。大機扣佛，譬忍辱草，圓應頓說，譬出醍醐。又頓教最初，始入內凡，仍呼為乳。呼為乳者，意不在淡，以初故本故。如牛新生，血變為乳，純淨在身，犢子若𡂡，牛即出乳。佛亦如是，始坐道場，新成正覺，無明等血轉變為明，八萬法藏十二部經具在法身，大機犢子，先感得乳，乳為眾味之初，譬頓在眾教之首，故以華嚴為乳耳。三教分別，即名頓教，亦即醍醐。五味分別，即名乳教。

With such initial sudden [teachings], he did not necessarily teach exclusively the bodhisattvas of the dharma-kāya; there were also ordinary beings of great capacity. Thus there are two meanings: those who directly awaken to its essence as round and sudden belong to ghee; for those of initial mind, although they hear the great teaching, they only enter the ten faiths, which is the very first flavor; since the initial can give rise to what follows, it is again like milk. Why? Although it is called sudden, whether vehicle and precepts are both urgent, or precepts are relaxed while the vehicle is urgent, being born by such karma, they cannot arrive of their own accord; they must be born in response to be led into the seven locations and eight assemblies. When great capacities stimulate the Buddha, it is compared to the forbearance grass; the perfect response and sudden preaching is compared to producing ghee. Furthermore, at the very beginning of the sudden teaching, when one first enters the inner ordinary stage, it is still called milk. It is called milk not with the intent of blandness, but because it is the initial and fundamental. Just as when a cow newly gives birth, blood transforms into milk, purely present in the body, and if the calf suckles, the cow yields milk: the Buddha is also like this; first sitting at the place of awakening and newly attaining correct awakening, the blood of ignorance and so forth transforms into clarity, and the eighty thousand treasuries of Dharma and twelve divisions of scriptures are fully present in the dharma-kāya; the calves of great capacity are the first to stimulate and receive milk. Since milk is the first of all flavors, it illustrates that the sudden is at the head of all teachings; therefore, the Avataṃsaka is considered milk. When distinguishing according to the three teachings, it is called the sudden teaching, and is also ghee; when distinguishing according to the five flavors, it is called the milk teaching.