妙法蓮華經玄義 9.19

9.19

Seventh, regarding the fruit being sequential versus the fruit not being sequential: If existence is taken as the gate and one realizes the fruit through this gate, the three virtues are sequential and distinct: saying that the dharma-kāya is inherently possessed, prajñā is accomplished through cultivation, and liberation is newly perfected. Not only are the virtues of the fruit sequentially accomplished, but the causes are also circumscribed. As the Dilun masters say: 'The first ground is replete with the dāna-pāramitā; regarding the others, it is not that they are uncultivated, but according to strength and share, dāna is fully perfected on the first ground and does not extend to the higher grounds. The other dharmas are possessed in share but not replete'—this meaning is incomplete, and the other three gates are also like this; these are the characteristics of the distinctive four gates.