法華義疏 7.170

7.170

「爾時長者有疾」下，第八、付財密化譬。因聞《法華》得悟《大品》，故領《大品》付財教也。然《大品》之與《法華》雖同是大乘，但《大品》顯教菩薩、密化二乘，以顯教菩薩故菩薩領解得記成佛，密化二乘二乘未悟，至於《法華》顯教二乘方乃得悟，始知昔日《大品》以去即是教我一乘。所以作此領解者，蓋是自傷之甚也。前說小令我入大而未解者其失猶輕，《大品》之時親付我大法而我不知，蓋是愚之甚也。有人言：波若教中聲聞已得悟道者，蓋是未善《法華》付財譬意故作此說耳。今謂大品教明悟聲聞，法華教辨聲聞悟也。大品教辨悟聲聞者有二種人：一者、本是小乘，聞說《般若》遂得小果；二者、本是大乘人，聞說《波若》證於羅漢，六十菩薩即其事也。法華教明聲聞悟者亦有二人：一者、本聲聞人，悟於《法華》並成菩薩；二者、菩薩之人，聞《法華經》疑網皆除，住不退轉。

From "At that time the elder fell ill" onwards is the eighth [section], the parable of entrusting the wealth and esoteric transformation. Because hearing the Lotus Sūtra brings awakening to the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, they express understanding of the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra's teaching of entrusting the wealth. Yet although both the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra and the Lotus Sūtra are Mahāyāna, the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra explicitly taught the bodhisattvas and esoterically transformed the two vehicles. Because it explicitly taught the bodhisattvas, the bodhisattvas expressed understanding, received prophecies, and attained buddhahood; but esoterically transforming the two vehicles, the two vehicles did not awaken. Only upon reaching the Lotus Sūtra, which explicitly teaches the two vehicles, did they at last attain awakening, beginning to realize that ever since the former Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, it had been teaching them the ekayāna. The reason they express understanding in this way is out of profound self-reproach: previously, when he taught the lesser to lead me into the greater and I did not understand, the fault was still light; but at the time of the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, when he personally entrusted the great Dharma to me and yet I did not know it, that was the height of foolishness. Some say: "In the Prajñā teachings the śrāvakas had already attained awakening to the path." This is merely said because they have not grasped the intent of the Lotus Sūtra's parable of entrusting the wealth. Now I say: the teaching of the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra explains awakening śrāvakas, while the teaching of the Lotus Sūtra analyzes the awakening of śrāvakas. In the teaching of the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, those whom it analyzes as awakening śrāvakas are of two kinds of people: first, those originally of the Hīnayāna, who upon hearing the Prajñāpāramitā taught, consequently attained the lesser fruits; second, those who were originally Mahāyāna persons, who upon hearing the Prajñāpāramitā taught, realized the status of arhat—the sixty bodhisattvas are an example of this. The Lotus Sūtra's teaching explaining the awakening of śrāvakas also involves two kinds of persons: first, original śrāvakas, who awaken to the Lotus Sūtra and all become bodhisattvas; second, bodhisattvas, who upon hearing the Lotus Sūtra have all nets of doubt removed and abide in non-retrogression.