妙法蓮華經玄義 2.123

2.123

Third, clarifying the objective realm of the four truths, which has four parts: 1. clarifying the four truths; 2. evaluating the crude and the subtle; 3. opening the crude and revealing the subtle; 4. contemplation of mind. The first part also has two parts: 1. citing other explanations, 2. the four sets of four truths. A master explains the boundless noble truths in the Śrīmālādevī-sūtra as contrasted with the incomplete [attainment] of the two vehicles, illuminating the Buddha's ultimate [realization]. For the two vehicles, there are the constructed four noble truths; "constructed" means the measurable four noble truths. The unconstructed four noble truths are the immeasurable four noble truths. Constructed and unconstructed pertain to practice; measurable and immeasurable pertain to phenomena. When the two vehicles contemplate the truths, they do not exhaust phenomena and still have further tasks to perform, hence they are called constructed. Because they do not exhaust phenomena, there are limits and measures. The sūtra states: "Knowing through another—such knowing is constructed practice." Knowing through another is not knowing all, and does not know immeasurable phenomena; hence it is called constructed and measurable. As for the unconstructed and immeasurable: the Buddha's knowledge is without end and has no further tasks to perform, hence it is called unconstructed. Knowing all through self-power—such knowing is unconstructed practice. "All" refers to immeasurable phenomena. Such an explanation, although proclaiming four names, merely establishes two meanings, which is not what is used here.