法華玄義釋籤 2.30

2.30

Next, in refuting the ancients, where it says 'unlike the old interpretations that exclusively classified a single text': as in the doctrinal classification in the tenth fascicle, which says 'the North and South universally used gradual, sudden, and indeterminate,' the indeterminate referred to the Śrīmālādevī Sūtra and the Suvarṇaprabhāsa Sūtra. Therefore, in the doctrinal classification of our school, each and every flavor contains the indeterminate; hence it is not like the old views that exclusively pointed to those two sūtras. As for 'each and every flavor': within the milk [flavor], the indeterminate is distinguished in terms of the contrast between the Perfect and Separate [teachings]; within the curd [flavor], although there are no two distinct teaching gates, the indeterminate is distinguished in contrast to the eighty thousand; within the raw and clarified butter [flavors], its meaning can be seen in terms of the contrast between three and four [teachings]. Next, from 'this is' onward is the secret [teaching], which consists of four parts: first, concluding the preceding and introducing the subsequent; second, from 'the Tathāgata' onward, briefly praising; third, from 'this assembly' onward, explaining the characteristics; fourth, from 'although again' onward, concluding with praise. The first passage is clear.