[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [妙法蓮華經文句](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718) › 7.24 # 妙法蓮華經文句 7.24 妙法蓮華經文句 7.24 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.7.24) 「如是迦葉」下，第二，五行，頌上無差別譬。又為二：前一行半，頌無差別之差別；後三行半，頌差別無差別。「譬如大雲如一味雨」，即頌合上一味雨無差別也。「潤於人華各得成實」，即是頌上差別也。次「迦葉當知以諸因緣」下，即是明權權即差別，合上所生也。「今當為汝」者即是顯實，實即無差別，合上一地也。「非滅度」者，未度變易也。獨言二乘者，為其保證強也。人天不計，果為涅槃，菩薩不中間取證也。「是菩薩道」者，菩薩行道亦須斷通惑，汝已斷盡即是菩薩道。《法華論》謂，發心退已還發，前所修善不滅，同後得果。二乘智斷是菩薩道者，二乘執其果故斥，言是菩薩道，道即因也。 > From "Thus, Kāśyapa" onward is the second \[section\], comprising five verses that versify the previous simile of nondifferentiation. This is further divided into two parts: the first verse and a half versifies the differentiation within nondifferentiation; the subsequent three verses and a half versify the nondifferentiation within differentiation. "Just like a great cloud, like rain of a single flavor" versifies and matches the above "rain of a single flavor is without differentiation." "Moistening human blossoms, each enables them to bear fruit" versifies the above differentiation. Next, from "Kāśyapa, you should know that through various causes and conditions" onward, this illuminates the expedient, and the expedient is differentiation, matching what was generated above. "Now I shall for you" reveals the real, and the real is nondifferentiation, matching the single ground above. "Are not extinct" means they have not yet crossed over the change \[of mortal rebirths\]. Mentioning the two vehicles alone is because their clinging to realization is strong. Humans and devas do not consider their fruit to be nirvāṇa; bodhisattvas do not attain realization mid-course. "This is the bodhisattva path" means that when a bodhisattva practices the path, they must also sever the shared defilements; since you have already severed them completely, this is precisely the bodhisattva path. The Treatise on the Lotus Sūtra states that having generated the aspiration, falling back, and generating it again, the good cultivated previously is not destroyed, matching the fruit attained later. That the knowledge and severance of the two vehicles is the bodhisattva path is said because the two vehicles cling to their fruit; thus they are reproved by saying this is the bodhisattva path, and the path is the cause. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.7.23) - [Next: 7.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.7.25) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718~en-mt.7.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.7.24) · Pramāṇa