妙法蓮華經玄義 1.38

1.38

It is only from the perspective of the gradual that the five flavors can be clarified. Furthermore, if the lesser does not hear the great, the great is entirely sudden; if the great does not employ the lesser, the lesser is entirely gradual; if the great is used to shatter the lesser, this is the gradual and the sudden set forth side by side; if the lesser is carried along to clarify the great, this is the gradual and the sudden mutually supporting; if the lesser is converged into the great, this is the complete merging of the gradual and the sudden. Therefore the Anantanirdeśa-sūtra states: "In the two dharmas of the gradual and the sudden, the three paths and four fruits did not unite." At the present time they unite, which is precisely this meaning.