妙法蓮華經玄義 5.46

5.46

界內為三途苦重，先斷見，次思，後及無知。界外苦輕，故先枝，後本。又，思無知，不障偏真，為見真理，故先除見。界外塵沙是體上惑，遠能障理，先却遠障，次除近障（云云）。復次，三藏中，後身菩薩及超果二乘，見、思同斷，亦先斷思（云云）。不超果者，前後斷耳。通教亦有超，不超二義。別教前後斷，圓教同斷。前後之問，但見一途耳（云云）。

Within the realm, because the suffering of the three evil destinies is heavy, one first severs view, next thought, and only later reaches nescience. Outside the realm, suffering is light; therefore, first the branches and later the root. Moreover, thought and nescience do not obstruct biased truth; in order to see the true principle, one first eliminates view. Dust-sand [afflictions] outside the realm are afflictions on the substance; being distant, they can obstruct principle, so one first eliminates the distant obstruction and next removes the proximate obstruction (and so forth). Furthermore, in the Tripiṭaka [teaching], bodhisattvas in their final bodily existence and two-vehicle practitioners who transcend stages sever view and thought simultaneously, or also sever thought first (and so forth). Those who do not transcend stages sever them successively. The shared teaching also has the two senses of transcending and not transcending. The distinctive teaching severs them successively; the perfect teaching severs them simultaneously. The question of successive order observes only a single path (and so forth).