法華文句記 9.9

9.9

Applying it to the text of the present chapter, advancing is practice; precisely through self-advancement, one propagates the sūtra. As for 'dharma gates', citing the three gates listed in various sūtras and treatises to substantiate this meaning refers to 'unmoving' and so forth listed and explained therein. In the explanation, each first presents the aspect of practice, next clarifies what is abandoned, and third concludes with the intention. First, 'unmoving' is precisely the Middle Way, as the cited passages all manifest being unmoving. As for the 'five receipts', the sūtra says: 'Practice is also not received, up to not receiving is also not received.' That sūtra belongs to the Mahāyāna, refuting the Tripiṭaka school's non-receipt of the ordinary person's five receipts; therefore, below, it is extensively explained to encompass the four propositions of the non-Buddhists and beyond, as well as the termination of words; the termination of words is also relinquished, hence the five non-receipts, up to the four gates of the Perfect Teaching and their termination. If so, before one has realized the real, all are called 'receipt'; if one is attached to the Perfect gate, the five receipts are still called receipt; only when one embodies the teaching and enters the principle, wherein principle has nothing to be received, is it called non-receipt.