法華玄論 8.140

8.140

答：上品末菩薩聲聞皆云弘經多難。弘經多難，或生退沒，妨自行化他，故說四行，身心安樂，自行化人則無所廢。又大判位行略有三種：一發菩提心、二行菩薩行、三得佛果。上三周說法即是發菩提心，今此一品即明行菩薩行，〈寶塔〉已去明佛果也。又上三周明開三顯一之義，謂智慧門。次歎法美人明流通，謂功德門。物情便謂有三有一、有福有慧，是故此品泯寂斯念，勸菩薩觀諸法如實相，不有不無、不二不一，而不失三一方便。自行化他雖有三一，三一只是無三無一，為是因緣，故說此四行。如說經大意釋也。

Answer: At the end of the previous chapter, both bodhisattvas and śrāvakas said that propagating the sūtra involves many difficulties. When propagating the sūtra has many difficulties, regression and loss may arise, hindering one's self-cultivation and transformation of others. Therefore, the four practices were spoken, so that with body and mind peaceful and joyful, one's self-cultivation and transforming of others will not be neglected. Furthermore, broadly distinguishing stages and practices, there are roughly three kinds: first, arousing the bodhicitta; second, practicing the bodhisattva practices; third, attaining the Buddha fruit. The previous three rounds of preaching the Dharma are none other than arousing the bodhicitta; this single chapter now clarifies practicing the bodhisattva practices; and from the 'Apparition of the Jeweled Stūpa' onward, it clarifies the Buddha fruit. Moreover, the previous three rounds clarify the meaning of opening the three and revealing the one, which is the gateway of wisdom. Next, praising the Dharma and admiring the person clarifies propagation, which is the gateway of merit. The grasping of beings would then suppose that there are the three and there is the one, that there is merit and there is wisdom; therefore, this chapter extinguishes these thoughts, encouraging bodhisattvas to contemplate all phenomena in accordance with the true mark, neither existent nor non-existent, neither dual nor singular, while not losing the skillful means of the three and the one. Although self-cultivation and transforming others involve the three and the one, the three and the one are simply the absence of three and the absence of one. It is for these causes and conditions that these four practices were spoken, as explained in the overall purport of the sūtra.