法華玄義釋籤 3.47

3.47

次料簡中五重問答。初問中云：菩薩雖得四，此亦約三論四，如前。答中通教既無中道，義當無第一義。三藏菩薩不斷惑者，若以二乘望通即同得四。言從證則四從教則權，而不云從教則三者，教道證道俱說有四，但權實不同故不云三。若取地前為教道者，既有「若取」之言，當知初地以去仍有教道之義，具如《止觀》第三記。

Next, in the critical evaluation, there are five rounds of questions and answers. In the first question, it says: Although bodhisattvas attain four, this is also discussing four based on three, as before. In the answer: since the Shared Teaching has no Middle Way, it properly lacks the ultimate truth. As for the bodhisattva of the Tripiṭaka Teaching not cutting off afflictions: if looking at the Shared Teaching from the perspective of the two vehicles, they similarly attain four. The statement that from realization there are four and from teaching there is the provisional, rather than saying from teaching there are three, is because both the teaching path and realization path speak of four, but their provisional and real natures differ; hence it does not say three. As for taking the stages before the bhūmis as the teaching path: since there is the phrase "if taking", one should know that from the first bhūmi onward there is still the meaning of the teaching path, fully as in the third record of the Zhiguan.