妙法蓮華經文句 8.68

8.68

From "The Buddha told the monks…" downward, third, it exhorts practice, as in the text. Regarding "born by transformation from a lotus flower": the Garbhāvakrānti-sūtra states, "Those born from lotus flowers are not of the apparition birth among the wombs, eggs, moisture, and apparitions"; it is termed apparitional birth while not truly apparitional, for it is really not like the apparitional birth among the four modes of birth. The Qing Guanyin [jing] states, "Taking lotus-transformation birth as parents." The Guan Wuliangshou [jing] states, "Those who abide in the flower calyx for long are born of the womb, yet they are not truly womb-born; by analogy, those born of lotuses are also termed moisture- or egg-born, yet they are not truly moisture- or egg-born" (and so forth).