妙法蓮華經玄義 8.8

8.8

Fourth, it contains "marking-line": the Buddha spoke using the four siddhāntas. First hearing the mundane, it trims away the false teachings of craving and views, so that one is not confused by inverted evil winds and can enter the correct track; this is the marking-line of teaching. If one hears the individual and counteractive [siddhāntas], one departs far from the non-path and enters the good and correct path of the factors of awakening; this is the marking-line of practice. If one hears the supreme truth, it trims away this shore of craving and views so that one can reach the other shore, neither preserving birth-and-death nor dwelling in the unconditioned; this is the marking-line of meaning. Grouping these as dharma gates: the teaching trimming away the false is right speech; practice trimming away the false is right action, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration, and so forth; meaning trimming away the false is right view, right thought, and so forth. Since "marking-line" already contains so much within itself, it cannot be translated.