妙法蓮華經玄義 9.20

9.20

If existence is taken as the gate and one realizes the fruit through this gate, the three virtues are replete, neither sequential nor distinct, and the causes are also like this: a single dharma gate is replete with all dharma gates, extending through to the buddha-ground. The Avataṃsaka says: 'From the initial first ground, one is replete with the merits of all grounds.' The Pañcaviṃśati says: 'The initial syllable A is replete with the merits of the forty-one syllables.' The other three gates are also like this; these are the characteristics of the perfect four gates. Furthermore, whether the distinctive gate speaks of the fruit not being sequential and the perfect gate speaks of the fruit being sequential, before or after, discerning the characteristics of perfect and distinctive is patterned on the above (and so forth).