妙法蓮華經文句 8.42

8.42

「所以者何」下，第四，釋得近意也。「一切菩薩」者，明諸權因也。「三菩提」者，明一切權果也。權因權果皆攝屬此經，如乾濕等土悉依於水，故言攝屬也。「開方便門示真實相」者，光宅云：「昔鹿苑機雜，盛說三藏未明一理，爾時以權隱實，一理為權教所閉；今王城赴大機顯於真實，真實既顯則廢除昔教，昔教被廢故方便門開，一理既彰真實相顯也。」私謂此解乃是破方便，非開方便也。河西道朗云：「直詺三為方便，即是開方便門。昔不言三是方便，故方便門閉，今詺三為方便，即示一為真實也。」私謂此釋符文。有人解，開教身兩方便，示教身兩真實，三世佛唯有形聲權實，約此開示則十二八萬煥然了矣。私謂前二師約教開示，後人加之以身，此竊龍印之義而為己釋，還是破方便意非開義也。

From "Why is this?" onwards is the fourth [part], explaining the meaning of being near. "All bodhisattvas" explains all expedient causes. "Sambodhi" explains all expedient fruits. Expedient causes and expedient fruits are all subsumed under and belong to this sūtra, just as dry and moist earths all depend on water; hence it says "subsumed under and belong to". "Opening the gate of expedient means and demonstrating the mark of the real": Guangzhai says, "Formerly at the Deer Park, faculties were mixed, and the Tripiṭaka was extensively preached without making the one principle clear. At that time, the real was concealed by the expedient, and the one principle was blocked by the expedient teachings. Now at the Royal City, responding to great faculties, the real is revealed. Once the real is revealed, the former teachings are discarded. Because the former teachings are discarded, the gate of expedient means is opened; and once the one principle is manifested, the mark of the real is revealed." In my private view, this interpretation destroys the expedient rather than opens the expedient. Daolang of Hexi says, "Directly calling the three expedient is itself opening the gate of expedient means. Formerly, it was not said that the three are expedients, hence the gate of expedient means was closed; now calling the three expedients demonstrates that the one is the real." In my private view, this explanation accords with the text. Someone explains that opening the two expedients of teaching and body demonstrates the two reals of teaching and body; the buddhas of the three periods have only the expedient and the real in form and sound, and when opening and demonstrating are treated according to this, the twelve [divisions] and eighty-four thousand [dharma gates] become luminously clear. In my private view, the former two masters opened and demonstrated according to teaching, whereas the later person added body to it; this steals Longyin's meaning and makes it his own explanation, yet it remains the intention of destroying the expedient, not the meaning of opening.