法華玄義釋籤 20.32

20.32

二益不益中先敘意，次分釋釋其濃淡。初約取用邊為二：先釋，次「不可」下結。初文二，謂譬、合。次文二，先以譬結，次「少分」下明譬意。初文亦二：先譬，次合。合又二：先正合，次「於小」下以譬帖合。次譬意中，言「少分譬喻不可全求」者，以華嚴為乳，但取機生未堪入大，復在五味最初而說，是故華嚴分喻初味，而未得於華嚴之頓，及別圓兩教俱有五味次第之相，復有不定及祕密等。次約良醫譬簡，中三：初譬，次「佛亦如是」下合，三「此若」下結。結中二：先結盈縮意，次「此取」下結用譬意，不以味濃為乳、味淡為酪，故知自約次第相生為譬，全用在初故如乳，縮用居次故如酪。

Second, under "benefit and non-benefit," it first outlines the intent, and next separately explains their thickness and thinness. First, in terms of adopting and employing, there are two parts: first the explanation, and next, from "Cannot" onward, the conclusion. The first text has two parts: the metaphor and the application. The next text has two parts: first concluding by means of the metaphor, and next, from "A partial" onward, explaining the intent of the metaphor. The first text also has two parts: first the metaphor, and next the application. The application also has two parts: first the direct application, and next, from "Regarding the small" onward, affixing the metaphor to the application. Next, in the intent of the metaphor, where it says "a partial metaphor cannot be sought in its entirety": taking the Avataṃsaka as milk merely takes [the fact that] capacities are raw and not yet able to enter the Mahāyāna, and furthermore it was preached at the very beginning of the five flavors; therefore the Avataṃsaka partially serves as a metaphor for the first flavor, but does not capture the suddenness of the Avataṃsaka, or the characteristics of the sequence of the five flavors present in both the Separate and Perfect teachings, or the indefinite, the secret, and so forth. Next, in evaluating by the metaphor of the skilled physician, there are three parts: first the metaphor; next, from "The Buddha is also like this" onward, the application; third, from "If this" onward, the conclusion. Within the conclusion there are two parts: first concluding the meaning of expansion and contraction; next, from "This adopts" onward, concluding the intent of employing the metaphor. It is not that thick flavor is milk and thin flavor is curd; hence we know it takes the sequential generation as the metaphor: full employment is at the beginning, so it is like milk; contracted employment is next, so it is like curd.