妙法蓮華經文句 1.85

1.85

Regarding origin and traces: in their origin, they ascended to the summit of the mountain of nirvāṇa, parting from parents of ignorance and delusion-attachment as well as wives and children of binding karma, leaving the household of fragmentary and changeful births and deaths, and having long eradicated the five entrenchments; what evil did they not destroy? Having obtained the joy of the true Dharma, just as one who eats milk porridge has no need of anything else; upholding the middle-way path-concomitant śīlapāramitā that gathers sentient beings through the perfection of precepts, the realm of Māra is subjugated, which is identical to the suchness of the Buddha-realm. Fit to mount and steer [the vehicle], the virtues of their original ground have long been accomplished; to tame sentient beings, in their traces they manifest as bhikṣus of the five flavors to successively lead sentient beings, analogous to the previous explanation.