法華玄論 4.90

4.90

Answer: The sūtra states, 'Because dharmas are unmoving.' 'Unmoving dharmas' does not mean the vehicle is permanently abiding and therefore called unmoving. Nor does it say that it is unmoving because ultimate truth is empty, nor is it unmoving because the vehicle does not go. This clarifies that the vehicle's departure is vividly apparent yet without any place of departure, and is therefore called unmoving. Since there is departing without departure, there is also beginning without beginning, and ending without end. Beginning without beginning begins from the initial aspiration; ending without end ends at the tenth bhūmi. This is distinguishing its beginning and end in terms of the causal gate. Within this beginning and end, two stages are again distinguished: before the bhūmis, in the thirty mental stages, this contemplation is not yet fully perfected and is called the semblance vehicle; upon ascending the bhūmis and above, this contemplation is attained and manifests before one, so it is called the true vehicle. Therefore the treatise states, 'Before the bhūmis is called the patient acceptance of compliance, and ascending the bhūmis is called the patient acceptance of the non-arising of dharmas.' This is the meaning of true and semblance.