妙法蓮華經玄義 10.77

10.77

復言熟蘇味者，命令轉教，領知眾物，心漸通泰，自知螢火不及日光，敬伏之情，倍更轉熟，如從生蘇轉成熟蘇也。又解「般若之後明華嚴海空」者，即是圓頓法華教也。何者？初成道時，純說圓頓，為不解者大機未濃，以三藏方等般若洮汰淳熟根利障除，堪聞圓頓，即說法華，開佛知見，得入法界，與華嚴齊，《法性論》中入者是也。故下文云：「始見我身……入如來慧。」今聞是經入於佛慧，初後佛慧圓頓義齊，故次般若之後，說華嚴海空，齊法華也，亦第五時教也。

Furthermore, speaking of the flavor of cooked butter: [the son] was ordered to turn and transmit the teaching, taking charge of and knowing the various goods, so that his mind gradually became open and at ease. Knowing of himself that a firefly's light cannot match the light of the sun, his feelings of reverent submission matured all the more—just as from raw butter one turns into cooked butter. Moreover, explaining that 'after the Prajñā, the Avataṃsaka sea-like emptiness is clarified' means the perfect and sudden teaching of the Lotus Sūtra. Why is this? When [the Buddha] first attained the Way, he expounded purely the perfect and sudden [teaching], but for those who did not understand, their spiritual capacity for the great had not yet deepened. Through the Tripiṭaka, the Vaipulya, and the Prajñā, they were refined and mellowed, their faculties became sharp, and their obstructions were eliminated, so that they were capable of hearing the perfect and sudden. He then expounded the Lotus Sūtra, opening the Buddha's knowledge and vision, enabling them to enter the dharma realm, on par with the Avataṃsaka—this is the entering spoken of in the *Faxing lun*. Therefore the text below says: 'At the outset, beholding my body... they entered the Tathāgata's wisdom.' Now, hearing this sūtra, they enter into the Buddha's wisdom; the Buddha's wisdom at the beginning and at the end are equal in their perfect and sudden meaning. Therefore, following the Prajñā, the Avataṃsaka sea-like emptiness is expounded, which is on par with the Lotus Sūtra, and is also the teaching of the fifth period.