法華玄論 7.37

7.37

Answer: The approaches of meaning are distinct. Earlier, existence and non-existence were judged with respect to the three vehicles to explain the provisional and the real, precisely wishing to rebuke the sickness of the two vehicles; thus it clarified that the Buddha vehicle is real and existent, while the two vehicles are false and non-existent. Why is this? Persons of the two vehicles considered the two vehicles and the Buddha vehicle to both be real and existent, so this rebuke was made. Because the two vehicles are non-existent, they were sought out [and dismantled]; because the bodhisattva vehicle is existent, it was not sought out [and dismantled]. Now, in explaining that there are no five [vehicles], looking at it from the perspective of the true path, this dharma cannot be demonstrated—how could there ever be five or not-five? Speaking of five and not-five is entirely preaching in accordance with beings, and both are provisional.