妙法蓮華經玄贊 4.168

4.168

贊曰：釋開權顯實之義。知諸眾生未能頓學一乘教故，識其根、欲故，初以權方便助顯一乘，後令入實。又菩薩根性有二：一不定性，二定性。為不定性初權後實，顯暢一乘，前二頌是；為定性者說頓教一乘，此文是也。謂知眾生心性頓欲故，以異方便不從權取實顯助一乘，一乘者第一義諦真如等是。初三後一是權實之方便，頓說一乘故名異方便。

Eulogy: Explaining the meaning of opening the provisional and revealing the real. Knowing that sentient beings could not suddenly learn the Single Vehicle teaching, and recognizing their dispositions and desires, [the buddhas] initially used provisional expedient means to assist in revealing the Single Vehicle, and later caused them to enter the real. Furthermore, the dispositions of bodhisattvas are of two kinds: first, indeterminate disposition; second, determinate disposition. For those of indeterminate disposition, they are provisional first and real later, revealing and expounding the Single Vehicle, as in the preceding two verses; for those of determinate disposition, they teach the sudden teaching of the Single Vehicle, as in this text. That is, knowing that the mental disposition of sentient beings desires the sudden, through distinct expedient means they do not proceed from the provisional to the real to reveal and assist the Single Vehicle; the Single Vehicle is the supreme truth, tathatā, and so forth. Initially three and later one is the expedient means of provisional and real; teaching the Single Vehicle suddenly is therefore called 'distinct expedient means.'