妙法蓮華經文句 8.30

8.30

From "After the Tathāgata's extinction, those who can copy and uphold it" downward is the second part, praising in terms of persons. When this Dharma is in a person, the person is noble. "Clothed in the Tathāgata's robes" means cultivating and studying great forbearance as one's robes; above it was called "adorned by the Tathāgata". "Protected and kept in mind by the Buddhas": the true mark is the Buddha, and real wisdom is the child; honoring the true mark and generating real wisdom is to be protected and kept in mind by all buddhas. The four faiths are the "power of faith", the four universal vows are the "power of vows", and great wisdom is the "power of wholesome roots". Faith means believing in principle, and principle is the dharmakāya; determination and vows are the establishment of practice, and practice is liberation; wholesome roots are firmly established and hard to shake, and this is prajñā. One should know that the three powers are precisely the secret storehouse of the three virtues; the beginner mind dwelling in this is not distinct from the Buddha, hence it is called "dwelling together with the Tathāgata". Furthermore, with the power of faith one cultivates the Tathāgata's wisdom of ultimate emptiness; the Tathāgata dwells in ultimate emptiness as his house, and this person's power of faith also studies ultimate emptiness, hence they dwell together with the Tathāgata. "Stroking the head with his hand": this person, with the power of vows and the power of goodness, takes their own practice of the expedient and the real as the capacity for resonance, and this capacity for resonance is called the "head"; the Tathāgata takes the two wisdoms of the expedient and the real that convert others as his "hand", opening and developing the previous person's head of self-practiced expedient and real; since resonance and response interact, it says "stroking the head", and stroking the head is conferring a prediction.