妙法蓮華經文句 5.22

5.22

The Tripiṭaka teaching says that for three asaṃkhyeya [kalpas] delusions are not yet severed, and as soon as they are severed one enters the truth; the shared teaching says that bodhisattvas sever active afflictions and retain residual habits, and when the habits are exhausted they immediately attain buddhahood. When they initially heard the brief exposition all called expedient, where after all were the truth of the past and the attainment of the past to be found? Furthermore, the three vehicles study the one path together; why should there be any distinction? Now, hearing the Lotus Sūtra, all doubts are swept clean, leaving not a particle behind.