法華遊意 1.266

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總明經論顯密者，大明一化凡有四門：一、顯教菩薩不蜜化聲聞，即花嚴教也。大機已熟故顯教之，小器未堪不宜密化，故羅烈珍玩正為宗親，窮子躃地未堪授珍寶故。二、顯教聲聞不蜜化菩薩，即三藏教也。誘引將順正為二乘，更遣餘人不蜜化菩薩。三、顯教菩薩蜜化聲聞，即波若教也。嚴土化人正教大士，付財命說密化小心。四、顯教菩薩顯化聲聞，即法花教也。大士疑除故顯教菩薩，羅漢作佛故顯化聲聞。此之四門即是次第，三句屬菩薩藏收，顯教聲聞不蜜化菩薩屬三藏教攝。然《華嚴》、《大品》及以三藏，當教明義唯有一轍，《法花》結會始終是則具足四門。

As for generally clarifying the manifest and the secret across sūtras and treatises, broadly elucidating a single dispensation there are four gateways in all: 1. manifestly teaching bodhisattvas and not secretly transforming śrāvakas, which is the Avataṃsaka teaching. Because the great capacities were already mature, He manifestly taught them; because the small vessels were not yet capable, it was not appropriate to secretly transform them—therefore, displaying rare jewels was precisely for kin and relations, while the poor son collapsed to the ground, not yet capable of being conferred precious jewels. 2. Manifestly teaching śrāvakas and not secretly transforming bodhisattvas, which is the Tripiṭaka teaching. Luring and accommodating was precisely for the two vehicles, and furthermore other people were sent away, not secretly transforming bodhisattvas. 3. Manifestly teaching bodhisattvas and secretly transforming śrāvakas, which is the Prajñā teaching. Purifying the land and transforming people was precisely for teaching the great beings; entrusting the wealth and commanding the expounding secretly transformed those of small minds. 4. Manifestly teaching bodhisattvas and manifestly transforming śrāvakas, which is the Lotus Sūtra's teaching. The doubts of the great beings having been removed, He manifestly taught bodhisattvas; the arhats becoming buddhas, He manifestly transformed śrāvakas. These four gateways are precisely the sequence: three propositions are subsumed under the Bodhisattvapiṭaka; manifestly teaching śrāvakas and not secretly transforming bodhisattvas is subsumed under the Tripiṭaka teaching. Yet while the Avataṃsaka, the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā, and the Tripiṭaka, in clarifying their meaning according to their respective teachings, each have only a single track, the Lotus Sūtra concludes and unites beginning and end, thereby fully possessing all four gateways.