妙法蓮華經玄義 5.74

5.74

Next, opening the two vehicles and bodhisattvas of the shared teaching is also like this. For the stage of the bodhisattva who emerges into the provisional: fully resolving this provisional, the provisional is precisely the middle, like placing poison in raw curd-butter, which can kill a person. According to the coarse, it is the subtle, which is the semblance stage; if one advances, one determines the subtle according to the stage.