妙法蓮華經玄義 4.183

4.183

It is not that sūtras and treatises do not match them, but their higher and lower alignments differ, and human masters match them differently: some use the stage of seeing to match only the first stage, as is currently used; or, taking from the inclination toward the first stage across three stages, they combine and match them to the first stage. The Renwang [sūtra] clarifies four stages combined and matched to the first stage; this is difficult to determine definitively. However, the stage of seeing in the shared teaching is fundamentally the unhindered path, realizing the srotaāpanna without emerging from contemplation; how could severing views span from the first stage up to the third or, as some say, the fourth stage? If it were severing distinctive delusions not shared with the two vehicles, such a principle could exist. Furthermore, some say: the sixth stage severs fetters equally with the arhat, while others say the seventh stage. This is difficult to hold definitively. For the two fruits before and after, the matchings in the sūtras and treatises are inconsistent, and the intermediate ones can be understood by inference. Deducing now through principle, one cannot cling to a definitive [view].