法華玄論 6.14

6.14

答：此呵嘖二乘保執昔教。汝不改無常、不信常住者，亦不得二乘菩提，故作此呵耳。又此是欲時會令信常住故。又若不知常住不得二乘菩提，若不知常住亦不得三歸五戒，若爾者，《涅槃》之前無佛弟子，皆是俗人也。而經但云「不識常住，歸戒不具足」耳，非不隨分得之。二乘亦爾，隨分斷三界惑成羅漢耳。

Answer: This is a rebuke of the two vehicles for obstinately clinging to the former teaching: 'If you do not change from impermanence and do not believe in the eternal, you will not attain the bodhi of the two vehicles either.' It is merely to make this rebuke. Moreover, this was because he wished at that time's assembly to make them believe in the eternal. Furthermore, if not knowing the eternal means not attaining the bodhi of the two vehicles, then if one does not know the eternal, one would also not attain the three refuges and the five precepts; if so, before the Nirvāṇa[-sūtra], there would have been no disciples of the Buddha, and all would have been laypeople. Yet the sūtra merely says, 'Not recognizing the eternal, the refuges and precepts are not complete'—it does not mean that they do not attain them according to their capacity. The two vehicles are also like this: they merely sever the afflictions of the three realms according to their capacity and become arhats.