妙法蓮華經玄義 7.87

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五本神通妙者，經言：「如來祕密神通之力」，又云：「或示己身他身，示己事他事。」示己身己事者，圓神通也；示他身他事者，偏神通也。祕密者，妙也；若偏、若圓，皆是妙也。此指本時神通，非迹神通也。迹通多種：或言依背捨除入，十四變化獲得六通，過外道，勝二乘，此乃三藏佛通也。或言依體法無漏慧，獲得六通，勝依背捨者，此通佛神力也。或言束前六通為五，依中道發無漏通，此六是別佛通也。或言中道無記化化禪，具六通一切變化，不起滅定，現諸威儀，語默不相妨，動寂無二理，又如今經中六瑞、變土等，皆是圓佛通也。

Fifth, explaining the wonderfulness of the original spiritual powers: The sūtra states: 'The Tathāgata's secret power of spiritual penetrations,' and further: 'Or manifesting his own body or another's body, manifesting his own affairs or another's affairs.' Manifesting his own body and own affairs is the perfect spiritual power; manifesting another's body and another's affairs is the biased spiritual power. 'Secret' means wonderful; whether biased or perfect, both are wonderful. This points to the spiritual powers of the original time, not the spiritual powers of the traces. Trace spiritual powers are of many kinds: Some say that relying on the liberations and the eradicating bases, through the fourteen transformations one obtains the six spiritual powers, surpassing non-Buddhists and excelling the two vehicles; this is the spiritual power of the Tripiṭaka Buddha. Some say that relying on the undefiled wisdom that embodies dharmas one obtains the six spiritual powers, excelling those relying on the liberations; this is the divine power of the shared Buddha. Some say that bundling the former six spiritual powers into five, relying on the Middle Way one gives rise to the undefiled spiritual power; these six are the spiritual powers of the distinctive Buddha. Some say that the neutral transformative dhyāna of the Middle Way possesses all the transformations of the six spiritual powers, not arising from the concentration of cessation yet manifesting all dignified deportments, speech and silence not obstructing each other, movement and quiescence having no dual principle—further, as in the present sūtra, the six omens, transforming the lands, and so forth are all the spiritual powers of the perfect Buddha.