法華玄義釋籤 4.3

4.3

Third, regarding concluding the force of the objections, there are also two: first the explanation, and next the conclusion. In the numbers there are also two: first concluding the number, and next explaining the present intention. In the first text: however, the positions refuted among the twenty-four objections are all within Guangzhai's commentary; here they are cited directly to make objections without being exhaustive. Speaking of twenty-four: this is merely based on relative pairing, calculating the present and past together, hence twenty-four. If the present and past are discussed separately: objecting to the past cause and fruition has three each, combining to make six objections; objecting to the present cause and fruition also makes six objections; combined, there are twelve objections. Each with four rounds makes forty-eight. Moreover, the present text's three meanings on fruition only object to the present position and function, omitting discussion of the past; thus lacking four rounds in two places, the current text comes to forty rounds. 'Contradiction' (spear and shield) is as in the notes on the fifth fascicle of the Zhiguan. Now, turning their four unities back against them, their subtlety is turned into coarseness; turning their three of the past back against them, their coarseness is turned into subtlety. Hence there is neither excess nor deficiency.