法華玄論 7.180

7.180

答：可細尋其旨也。此智斷可兩望之。若言智斷究竟，此則無，故不可會。而有此不究竟之智斷，宜會歸一乘，故云「汝等所行是菩薩道」也。論釋云「汝等所行是菩薩道，謂前菩提心退已，還發前所修，善根不滅，同後得果故。」此意明取菩提心善根，故是菩薩道耳。二乘智斷皆是菩薩道之遠緣，人天善根亦爾也。

Answer: One may examine its intention closely. This wisdom and severance can be viewed from both sides: If one speaks of ultimate wisdom and severance, this does not exist, and therefore cannot be converged. Yet there is this non-ultimate wisdom and severance, which ought to be converged and returned to the one vehicle; hence it is said, "What you are practicing is the bodhisattva path." The treatise explains: "'What you are practicing is the bodhisattva path' means that after regressing from the prior aspiration for bodhi, one generates it again; what was previously cultivated and the roots of goodness are not destroyed, because they align with the fruit attained later." This intention clarifies that it takes the roots of goodness of the aspiration for bodhi, and therefore it is the bodhisattva path. The wisdom and severance of the two vehicles are both distant conditions for the bodhisattva path; the roots of goodness of humans and devas are likewise so.