法華玄論 6.90

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第六明大小。有人言：索一大車非索三也。何以故者，父既賜大則知索大，若不索大何由賜大？有人言：文云「願賜我等三種寶車」，不應背文言索一也。評曰：偏執二文，俱失圓意。考其旨歸，具索一二也。以大機既動，是故求一；情執於三，所以索三。機情合論，則三一俱索。

Sixth, explaining great and small. Someone says: They ask for the one great carriage; they do not ask for three. For what reason? Since the father bestows the great [carriage], we know they asked for the great one; if they did not ask for the great one, why would he bestow the great one? Someone else says: The text states, "May you grant us the three kinds of precious carriages"; one must not go against the text by saying they asked for one. Critical appraisal: Clinging exclusively to either of the two texts loses the complete and round meaning. When we examine their ultimate import, they fully asked for both the one and the two. Because the great spiritual capacity had already been stirred, they sought the one; because sentient grasping was attached to the three, they asked for the three. When spiritual capacity and sentient grasping are discussed together, they asked for both the three and the one.