法華義疏 8.304

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上根一聞《法華》世世與師相值，復值四萬億佛早悟一乘；中根人退大取小，值釋迦於靈山之會；下根人亦退大取小，不面值釋迦亦不聞《法華》，於未來方值佛聞《法華》方得了悟也。

Those of superior faculties, upon hearing the Lotus Sūtra once, met their master life after life, further met forty billion buddhas, and early awakened to the ekayāna; persons of middling faculties regressed from the great and adopted the small, meeting Śākyamuni at the assembly on Gṛdhrakūṭa; persons of dull faculties also regressed from the great and adopted the small, neither meeting Śākyamuni face-to-face nor hearing the Lotus Sūtra, and only in the future will they meet a buddha, hear the Lotus Sūtra, and only then attain awakening.