妙法蓮華經文句 3.46

3.46

As for the critical evaluation: the first explanation represents expedients external to the essence, the expedient of converting beings, words following the minds of others. The second explanation is also an expedient external to the essence, an expedient of one's own practice and converting others, and also words following both one's own and others' minds. The latter explanation represents the expedient of identical essence, which is precisely the expedient of one's own practice, words following one's own mind. In the first explanation, expedient means is neither that which can enter nor that which is entered; in the second explanation, expedient means is that which can enter, not that which is entered; in the latter explanation, expedient means is that which is entered, not that which can enter. Therefore we know that although the name is identical, its meaning is vastly different. People of the world mostly do not understand this meaning, and explain the 'Expedient Means Chapter' wildly, and so on.