法華義疏 7.76

7.76

'Gradually roaming about, he happened to head toward his native land': the native land is the Mahāyāna principle. The *Lotus Samādhi Sūtra* says: 'Returning to the source and exhausting desires, one makes a person return to his old village; the old village is named the unconditioned, and because of the unconditioned, it is called the pure chamber.' The Buddha answered a brāhmaṇa: 'In Prajñā Commandery, Original Limit County, Transcendent City, Absolute Ward, I dwell beneath the Sarvajña tree.' Turning away from evil toward good—since wholesome principle cannot be cultivated suddenly, it is 'gradually'; at this time, there is only human and divine wholesomeness, and looking toward the great conversion it is difficult to reach, which is also 'gradually'. Human and divine wholesomeness is not original wholesomeness; losing one's residence is 'roaming about'. Although human and divine wholesomeness is not original wholesomeness, the power of wholesomeness covertly aids the great capacity; hence it says 'happened to head toward'. The *Treatise* (*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa*) says: 'Wholesomeness with acquisition is the primary gateway to non-acquisition'—this is precisely the case. The former was the beginning of abandoning the father, which should be called 'turning away'; this is the beginning of returning to the origin, so it says 'heading toward'.