法華玄論 6.19

6.19

Question: If [practitioners of] the two vehicles do not spontaneously know that they will become Buddhas, why does the Śrīmālādevī-sūtra say, 'In the initial endeavors of the three vehicles, being undeluded about dharmas, they spontaneously know that they will awaken and will attain'? Furthermore, the Upāsaka-sūtra, in its fourteenth chapter, states: 'They spontaneously know that they should attain bodhi, yet temporarily take the fruition of the small vehicle.' In the thirteenth chapter, it directly explains that by receiving the precepts one attains the fruits of the three paths; because knowing it is very easy but practicing it is very difficult, although they know the one vehicle, they realize the fruit of an arhat.