法華玄論 8.67

8.67

Answer: If turning the dharma of the four truths explains forty-eight practices, it must refer to the seeing of the truths. Why? Because the sixteen minds of seeing the truths, considered across the three capacities as each attaining sixteen, therefore form forty-eight. Reflection does not necessarily contemplate all four truths completely. Moreover, in cutting off defilements through the nine unobstructed [paths] and nine [paths of] liberation, the sixteen minds are not explained, so they cannot form forty-eight. If one turns the dharma wheel of the sixteen truths, this applies commonly to seeing and reflection, because in both seeing and reflection one can engage in the contemplation of the sixteen truths, thus forming sixteen practices. However, because the former sixteen refers solely to the seeing of the truths, it is distinct, whereas the latter sixteen is common. Next, explaining how to synthesize them into four propositions: (1) opening teaching and opening practice, which refers to the sixteen truths and sixteen practices; (2) combining teaching and combining practice, which refers to the twelve teachings and twelve practices; (3) combining teaching and opening practice: the twelve teachings of the three turnings are the combined teaching, while opening practice refers to the forty-eight across the three capacities; (4) combining practice and opening teaching: with reference to a single person fully hearing the twelve teachings of the three turnings, it is called opening teaching, while engendering only a single [set of] eye, knowledge, clarity, and awakening is combining practice.