妙法蓮華經玄義 6.58

6.58

一、機麁妙者，如樂間地獄，此樂因微善故。《立世毘曇》云：「人養六畜，飲飴溫清者，在熱地獄得冷間，寒地獄得溫間。」若從此義，樂間得論十法界機。阿鼻無樂間則無事善，云何具十？然阿鼻有性善不斷故。又近世雖無事善，遠劫或有，惡強善弱，冥伏未發，若遇因緣，發亦何定。是故阿鼻得具十機。即判麁妙，九界機為麁，佛界機為妙。麁機召方便應，此機有熟、未熟；方便應有淺、有深。機熟者，被應；未熟者，未應。應淺深者，如從無間得之於間，出地獄至畜生，出畜生至鬼，出三惡至人天，出人天至二乘等，悉是機之生、熟，應之淺、深，悉屬麁機攝。

First, regarding the crude and subtle of spiritual capacity: as in the interval of joy in hell, this joy is due to slight goodness. The Abhidharmakośa-sthāpanā-śāstra says: 'If a person raises the six domestic animals, giving them drink and food and keeping them warm or cool, in the hot hells they obtain intervals of cool, and in the cold hells they obtain intervals of warmth.' If according to this meaning, in the intervals of joy one can discuss the capacities of the ten dharma realms. In Avīci there are no intervals of joy and thus no concrete good; how could it possess all ten? However, it is because Avīci has inherent goodness that is never severed. Furthermore, although it has no concrete good in the recent age, it may have had it in distant kalpas; with evil being strong and good weak, it remains hidden, dormant, and unarisen, but if it encounters causal conditions, when it might arise is indeterminate. Therefore, Avīci can possess the ten capacities. Now evaluating the crude and the subtle: the capacities of the nine realms are crude, and the capacity of the buddha realm is subtle. Crude capacities summon provisional responses; these capacities have mature and immature states, and provisional responses have shallow and deep levels. Those whose capacity is mature receive a response; those who are immature do not yet receive a response. As for the shallow and deep of responses: as when moving from the uninterrupted [Avīci] to an interval, leaving hell for the animals, leaving animals for the ghosts, leaving the three evil realms for humans and devas, leaving humans and devas for the two vehicles, and so forth—all these are the unripeness and ripeness of capacity, the shallowness and depth of response, and all fall under the category of crude capacity.