妙法蓮華經玄贊 10.55

10.55

贊曰：五頌，分四：一勅聽，一數，二近遠，一眾生及結。小教說二乘天眼見大千，今說持經力凡夫眼見大千，初地菩薩見一百大千世界，六根功德多少不同，所得境界大千無別。修因勝劣果德不同，識用不差大千咸等。又德是內成，由因增咸；境是一化，外取量同。只如二乘傍取，遂有二千三千。宿命、天眼，所知過、未俱成八萬。又如初地天眼見百大千，勝二乘等；宿命、生死但知百劫，劣二乘等，不可一例。

Commentary: Five verses, divided into four: one commands them to listen; one gives the number; two address near and far; one addresses sentient beings and concludes. The Lesser Teaching says that the divine eye of the two vehicles sees the trichiliocosm; here it says that the eye of a worldling who upholds the sūtra through its power sees the trichiliocosm, while a bodhisattva of the first bhūmi sees one hundred trichiliocosms. Though the quantity of merit in the six faculties differs, the trichiliocosm that is the cognitive sphere obtained does not differ. The superior and inferior cultivated causes yield different fruition virtues, yet the functions of consciousness are without error and all equally take the trichiliocosm. Furthermore, virtue is internally accomplished and increases or decreases through causes; the cognitive sphere is a single transformation, and external apprehension is equal in scope. Just as the two vehicles apprehend peripherally, they consequently have two thousand and three thousand. Knowledge of past lives and the divine eye know eighty thousand [kalpas] in past and future alike. Again, as the divine eye of the first bhūmi sees a hundred trichiliocosms, surpassing the two vehicles and others, while knowledge of past lives and of birth and death only knows a hundred kalpas, inferior to the two vehicles and others, they cannot be judged by a single standard.