法華玄論 8.69

8.69

Answer: Although the preserved words are the same, their mindset is different. As the *Vimalakīrti* states in describing the Hinayana dharma wheel: "Thrice turning the dharma wheel in the great chiliocosm, that wheel is originally and ever pure." If so, although there are opening and combining, object and practice, they are all turnings of causes, conditions, and provisional names. As a turning of causes and conditions, this is turning without turning, having nothing that is turned; hence it is said, "that wheel is originally and ever pure." Extending to objects having nothing to objectify, and opening having nothing to open—only thus does it merit being called turning the dharma wheel, and only thus does it merit being called obtaining the purity of the dharma eye. If there were anything turned, this would be turning delusion, not turning the dharma wheel. If there were anything seen, it would merely be called deluded seeing, not obtaining the purity of the dharma eye. The "Chapter on the Arising of the Tathāgata Nature" in the *Avataṃsaka* describes the Hinayana dharma wheel as having nothing that is turned and nothing that returns, which is called turning the dharma wheel.