妙法蓮華經文句 4.2

4.2

From "At that time the World-Honoured One said to Śāriputra: 'You have already earnestly entreated three times; how could I not speak?'" onward, it broadly explains opening the three and revealing the one across seven and a half chapters, divided into three: first, for people of superior faculties, teaching by Dharma; second, for people of intermediate faculties, teaching by parable; third, for people of lower faculties, teaching by past causal conditions; also called principle, matters, and practice, just as the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra is also for three faculties (and so forth). Now it is distinguished by ten points: 1. general and specific; 2. with śrāvakas and without śrāvakas; 3. thickness and thinness of delusions; 4. faculties transforming or not transforming; 5. faculties awakening or not awakening; 6. expressing understanding and not expressing understanding; 7. receiving prediction and not receiving prediction; 8. shallowness and depth of awakening; 9. provisional and real benefit; 10. awaiting the time and not awaiting the time.