法華文句記 7.30

7.30

From "as in the world" downward, it allegorizes the preceding two explanations: causing others [to benefit] is like the bodhisattvas, and it is also himself like the two bodies. First, regarding "internally aligning" and so forth: first, it generally discusses the overall meaning. Next, from "contemplate" downward, it clarifies what is contemplated by mistaken wisdom. Saying "contemplating the five aggregates" and so forth means still using mistaken contemplation to observe the aggregates as severed or permanent; using this mistaken wisdom secretly aids the correct, becoming the cause for seeing the Buddha. Regarding "the sphere of suffering acting as the capacity": this restates the preceding mistaken wisdom aiding the correct to form a capacity; however, the non-Buddhists' causes of suffering ought to invite results of suffering, hence it says "the sphere of suffering." Because they carry the correct seed that perfumes the mind of mistaken wisdom, it can become a capacity that stimulates the Buddha's correct wisdom. Regarding "nirvāṇa extends to both the half and the full": the names are identical but the essences differ, and both manifest what is resided in; the names for transforming beings are distinct, but the Buddha's sphere is without distinction. Therefore, with regard to where the son arrives, both meanings are accomplished together: when the capacity matures, if he realizes, he realizes what the father has realized, which is called arriving at the father's city; this is the lesser capacity first tapping into the great response, so it conceptually establishes that the impoverished son has already arrived at the father's city, thus causing the city to be named nirvāṇa. Because both the great and the small obtain it, it takes both the half and the full to encompass the capacities of beings; since the capacities are not identical, their gathering in is also earlier and later. Regarding "the father constantly thought of his son" and so forth: although previously the capacity gradually tapped into the sage, here it clarifies the sage gradually gathering in the capacity; as the ritual of the path of transformation, it temporarily speaks of "anxiously thinking."