[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法華文句記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1719) › 9.103 # 法華文句記 9.103 法華文句記 9.103 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1719.9.103) 「就初三業供養」至「遍見」者，此乃感應道交。於五十劫令如半日，此明如來不可思議延促之事，顯於如來自在之力，則顯無機雖借雖隱而亦不能於長見短於狹見廣。鏡豈惜妍？由形故耳。有人云：聽法之志而忘其長。或云：長短斯亡、長短斯在。此並得感而失應，何以抑於如來神力耶？借（子夜切）。「拜繞」下更釋感應。初釋三業供養為機。「五十劫」下釋感應相，初釋即長而短，「四眾」下釋即狹而廣。於長短中又為四：初略示，次「如來」下明非長而長，三「解者」下約解惑判即是赴機，四「斯為」下明現長短意。初文者，即八自在中之一也。次文者，佛眼觀之長短不二，四眼觀之不無長短，故赴長短機令見不一。第三文者，解惑俱機故使菩薩即短而見長，執者即長而見短，如萬像森羅，凡夫謂異，二乘為如，如來見之，非如非異、而如而異。既云「令諸大眾謂如半日」，即促彼長令其見短，故云隱長；廣狹亦爾。如有漏報法尚乃盲者在明而無見，蝙蝠於夜而能視，故知明暗在眼非境爾也，況機應相召今昔之力。 > From "concerning the initial offering of the three karmas" to "seen everywhere": this is the mutual response of stimulus and response. Making fifty kalpas seem like half a day clarifies the Tathāgata's inconceivable matter of extending and contracting \[time\], manifesting the Tathāgata's power of ease; thus it shows that for those without capacity, although time is lent or concealed, they cannot see the short in the long or the vast in the narrow. Does a mirror begrudge beauty? It is simply due to the form. Someone said: "Due to their aspiration to hear the Dharma, they forgot its length." Or it is said: "Length and shortness are both extinguished; length and shortness are both present." These both grasp the stimulus but lose the response; why constrain the Tathāgata's spiritual power? "Lent" (jie, reading zi-ye). Below "bowing and circumambulating," it further explains stimulus and response. First, it explains the offering of the three karmas as the capacity. Below "fifty kalpas," it explains the characteristics of stimulus and response: first, it explains the long being precisely the short; below "the four assemblies," it explains the narrow being precisely the vast. Under length and shortness, there are again four parts: first, a brief indication; next, below "the Tathāgata," clarifying that the non-long is long; third, below "the understanding," judging in terms of understanding and delusion, which is precisely answering the capacity; fourth, below "this is," clarifying the intention behind manifesting length and shortness. The first passage is one among the eight sovereignties. The second passage: viewed with the buddha eye, long and short are non-dual; viewed with the four eyes, there is not an absence of long and short; therefore he answers the capacities for long and short, causing them to see differently. The third passage: both understanding and delusion are capacities, therefore causing the bodhisattvas to see the long in the short, and the attached to see the short in the long. Just as with the myriad phenomena arrayed in dense variety, ordinary people consider them different, the two vehicles consider them identical, and the Tathāgata sees them as neither identical nor different, yet both identical and different. Since it says "causing the great assembly to think it was like half a day," it contracts that length and causes them to see shortness, hence it is called concealing length; the vast and narrow are also like this. Just as with the karmic retributions of outflows, a blind person sees nothing even in brightness, while a bat can see at night; thus we know brightness and darkness are in the eye, not merely in the objective realm; how much more so the power of present and past in the mutual calling of capacity and response! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1719.9.102) - [Next: 9.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1719.9.104) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1719.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1719~en-mt.9.103) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1719.9.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1719.9.103) · Pramāṇa