法華玄義釋籤 1.122

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「今緣」去正顯今得。言「稟自行」者，約機極邊說，必至佛自行，方乃名得。約化主照機故通語自他。「極佛」下正出用相，通論本迹各有斷疑生信，別論增道損生唯在本門。今從省要，故以起信增道為迹門，斷疑損生為本門。「極佛境界」者，秖是十如權實，故云「唯佛與佛」。次益中云「生身生身得忍」等者，地前住前為生身，登地登住為生身得忍，謂生身中能破無明，得無生忍也。言「法身」等者，謂登地登住破無明，捨生身居實報土名為法身，位居等覺名為後心。若迹門唯益生身及生身得忍，本門進至法身及法身後心，所益通兼，故云「非但」。自垂迹已來，受化者漸廣，得久近益者，功在法華。

From 'the present conditions' onward directly reveals the present gain. The phrase 'receiving self-practice' is spoken in terms of the ultimate aspect of the faculties: one must reach the Buddha's own practice before it is called gain. In terms of the teaching master illuminating the faculties, it generally refers to both self and other. From 'culminating in the Buddha['s realm]' onward directly brings forth the characteristics of the function: speaking generally, the origin and traces each have the severing of doubts and the engendering of faith; speaking specifically, augmenting the path and diminishing births belongs solely to the origin gate. Now, following conciseness, we take the arising of faith and augmenting the path as the trace gate, and the severing of doubts and diminishing births as the origin gate. 'Culminating in the Buddha's realm' is simply the provisional and real of the ten suchnesses, which is why it says 'only a Buddha and a Buddha.' Next, regarding the benefits, when it says 'in the physical body, obtaining forbearance in the physical body,' and so forth: before the bhūmis and before the abodes is the physical body; ascending the bhūmis and ascending the abodes is obtaining forbearance in the physical body, meaning that within the physical body one is able to shatter fundamental ignorance and obtain the forbearance of non-arising. The phrase 'dharma body,' and so forth, means that ascending the bhūmis and ascending the abodes to shatter fundamental ignorance, casting off the physical body and dwelling in the reward land, is called the dharma body; when one's position resides in equal enlightenment, it is called the final mind. If the trace gate only benefits the physical body and obtaining forbearance in the physical body, the origin gate advances to the dharma body and the final mind of the dharma body; what it benefits encompasses both, which is why it says 'not only.' Ever since the manifestation of traces, those receiving transformation have gradually expanded; as for those who obtained distant and recent benefits, the merit lies in the Lotus Sūtra.