法華文句記 1.29

1.29

「重雰」下，章安斥古。雰者，猛雪重霧也，能翳太虛之清氣，使三光隱而失曜。故碎亂分文，失經之大道，三軌隱而靡用。津者，濟渡處也。若細分碎段，非求經旨者所宜，如在歧道有問路者，不答問者所之，而廣譚逵經，故非問者之要。曇鸞，北齊人，斥云：細科經文如煙雲等為疾風所颺。颺者，風飛也。隱翳太虛雜礪等者，準彼應作條例字，謂科條如塵，或是轉其言借勢用語，非全同彼故。砂石精者曰砥（音止）、麁者曰礪，雜塵隨颺同其煙翳。

From 'dense mist' onward, Zhāng’ān rebukes the ancients. *Fen* refers to heavy snow and dense fog; it can obscure the pure qi of the great void, causing the three luminaries to hide and lose their radiance. Therefore, fragmenting and confusing the textual divisions causes one to lose the great path of the sūtra, and the three tracks are concealed and without use. A ford (*jin*) is a crossing place. If one divides into minute, fragmented sections, it is unsuitable for one who seeks the sūtra's purport; like someone asking the way at a crossroad, not answering where the enquirer is going, but instead expounding extensively on thoroughfares and avenues, it is therefore not the essential point of the questioner. Tanluan, a man of the Northern Qi, rebuked this, saying: 'Subdividing the text of the sūtra into minute sections is like smoke and clouds being tossed by a violent wind.' *Yang* means flying in the wind. 'Obscuring the great void, mingling with whetstones' and so on: according to that [text], it should be written with the characters for 'articles and regulations' (*tiaoli*), meaning that the analytical headings are like dust; or perhaps he altered the words, borrowing the momentum of the expression, so it is not completely identical with that. Fine sand and stone are called *di* (pronounced *zhi*); coarse ones are called *li*; the mixed dust flying along with them is the same as that obscuring smoke.