法華玄義釋籤 12.16

12.16

前明境妙以證得為無諦，前明智妙二十智中訖至妙覺，前明行妙次第五行訖至初地，不次第行亦至六根，若明位妙，始終具足，向明三法，辨始終中，始從凡心一念十界，終至究竟，是三法果，今初何得斷云四因一果？

Earlier, in explaining the subtlety of the objective realm, realization was taken as truthlessness; earlier, in explaining the subtlety of wisdom, among the twenty wisdoms it extended up to wonderful awakening; earlier, in explaining the subtlety of practice, the gradual five practices extended up to the first bhūmi, and non-gradual practice also extended to the six sense faculties; when explaining the subtlety of stages, beginning and end were fully present; and just now in explaining the three dharmas, in distinguishing their beginning and end, they begin from a single thought of the ten realms in the mind of an ordinary being and end at the ultimate, which is the fruit of the three dharmas. How can it now be asserted at the outset that four are causes and one is fruit?