妙法蓮華經文句 7.74

7.74

三車為說法輪作譬，化城為神通輪作譬。又車約聲作譬，諸子聞而不見；城為色作譬。問：城與二使云何？使能指示，如教詮理；城為息患，教動而城靜。教即四諦、十二緣有異；城是二智入無餘不異。教通因果；城車但在果。教通有為無為；城車但在無為。權智謂車是無，名教施設故；實智謂車是有，無離文字說解脫故。權智照城為有，引眾生故；實智照城是無，偏真非實故。權智照車是三，逗三緣故；實智照車是一，俱會一乘故。權智照城為一，是偏真故；實智照城為三，如來藏故。權智照城為靜，是灰斷故；實智照城為動，滅此化故。權智照車為運，運入無餘故；實智照車為靜，不動不出故。作如此釋豈與舊同？舊秖在小乘中作義。

"The three carts serve as a parable for the wheel of teaching the Dharma; the conjured city serves as a parable for the wheel of supernatural transformations. Furthermore, the carts are a parable formulated in terms of sound—the sons heard but did not see them; the city is a parable formulated in terms of visible form. Question: How do the city and the two messengers relate? The messengers are able to give directions, just as the teaching explicates the principle; the city is for resting from affliction: the teaching is dynamic, while the city is static. The teachings differ as the Four Truths and the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination; the city is the lack of difference in entering [nirvāṇa] without remainder through the two types of wisdom. The teaching pertains to both cause and effect; the city and carts pertain only to the effect. The teaching pertains to both the conditioned and the unconditioned; the city and carts pertain only to the unconditioned. Expedient wisdom regards the carts as non-existent, because they are nominal, pedagogical contrivances; real wisdom regards the carts as existent, because liberation is not taught apart from words and letters. Expedient wisdom illumines the city as existent, because it leads sentient beings; real wisdom illumines the city as non-existent, because biased truth is not the real. Expedient wisdom illumines the carts as three, because it adapts to three conditions; real wisdom illumines the carts as one, because all converge in the One Vehicle. Expedient wisdom illumines the city as one, because it is biased truth; real wisdom illumines the city as three, because of the tathāgatagarbha. Expedient wisdom illumines the city as static, because it is the extinguishing of ashes; real wisdom illumines the city as dynamic, because it extinguishes this conjuration. Expedient wisdom illumines the carts as conveying, because they convey [beings] into [nirvāṇa] without remainder; real wisdom illumines the carts as static, because they neither move nor emerge. How could offering an explanation such as this be the same as the old interpretations? The old interpretations operated strictly within the meanings of the Hīnayāna."