法華玄論 3.94

3.94

答：以是義故開失心子、不失心子。不失心是利根人，聞初段開三顯一、後章開近顯遠皆得領悟；餘失心子聞而不解，故至《涅槃》方得悟也。

Answer: For this reason, [the parable] distinguishes between the sons who did not lose their senses and those who lost their senses. Those who did not lose their senses are people of sharp faculties: upon hearing the earlier section opening the three and revealing the one, and the later section opening the proximate and revealing the distant, they all attained awakening. The remaining sons who lost their senses heard but did not understand; thus they only attained awakening when it came to the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra.