妙法蓮華經文句 1.98

1.98

‘Their minds have attained self-mastery’: when concentration is fully possessed, it is called mental self-mastery; when wisdom is fully possessed, it is called wisdom self-mastery. Wisdom self-mastery does not necessarily mean mental self-mastery, but mental self-mastery necessarily includes wisdom self-mastery. Now, saying ‘mental self-mastery’ refers precisely to those liberated both ways who fully possess both concentration and wisdom; for those liberated both ways, birth is definitively ended, which verifies that this praises the virtue of ‘unborn.’ If according to the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkôpadeśa, this is called the gate of successive arising from the highest, which means using the latter to explain the former. The treatise says: ‘Because all outflows are exhausted, one is called an arhat; because the mind has attained self-mastery, the bonds of existences are exhausted.’ In this way it successively explains the preceding.