妙法蓮華經玄贊 4.269

4.269

贊曰：此明堪授。初頌明捨權就實，後頌除疑記。得喜者喜無量，不嫉眾生成佛事。「無畏」者決定義，作師子吼理決定故。「於菩薩中」者對勝人前故，二乘發心皆菩薩故。依真實理說一乘道名為正直；不隨機權說有三故名捨方便；但說無上一乘之道，即顯今直唯說一道非於餘故。地前頓悟菩薩疑自獨得菩提聲聞無分，不定種姓菩薩疑於佛果自亦無分，欲退向小，故今聞法此疑皆除；現前名高千二百聲聞，疑不得作佛，今正為說悉當作佛，涅槃由此說須陀洹八萬劫乃至辟支十千劫到，到於十信初發心也。此等脩行極為遲鈍，不如初脩始業菩薩，此據不定，非諸二乘皆定作佛。故《涅槃》第三十四云：「我於一時說一乘一道一行一緣，能為眾生作大寂靜，永斷一切結縛愁苦苦及苦因，令一切眾生到於一有。我諸弟子不解我意，於大眾中唱如是言：如來說須陀洹乃至阿羅漢皆得佛道等故。」

The commentary states: This clarifies that they are capable of being taught. The first verse explains abandoning the provisional and resorting to the real; the latter verse removes doubt and bestows prophecy. Attaining joy refers to immeasurable joy, not envying the matters of sentient beings becoming buddhas. 'Fearless' means certitude; because he roars the lion's roar, the principle is definitive. 'Amidst the bodhisattvas' means in the presence of superior people, because all who resolve their minds in the two vehicles are bodhisattvas. Preaching the path of the Single Vehicle relying on the true reality is called upright; not preaching the existence of three according to capacity and provisionality is called abandoning expedient means; preaching only the unexcelled path of the Single Vehicle reveals that he now straightly preaches only this one path and no other. Bodhisattvas of sudden awakening prior to the bhūmis doubted that they alone would attain bodhi while śrāvakas had no share; bodhisattvas of indeterminate lineage doubted that they themselves had no share in the fruit of buddhahood and wished to retreat toward the lesser; therefore, now hearing the Dharma, all these doubts are eliminated. The prominent twelve hundred śrāvakas present doubted that they could become buddhas, but now he directly preaches to them that all shall become buddhas. Therefore the *Nirvāṇa [Sūtra]* says that a srotāpanna takes eighty thousand kalpas and so on up to a pratyekabuddha taking ten thousand kalpas to arrive; arriving means reaching the initial aspiration of the ten faiths. The practice of these beings is extremely slow and dull, not comparable to a beginner bodhisattva just starting his practice; this is said in terms of indeterminate [lineage], and not that all of the two vehicles are definitively to become buddhas. Thus the thirty-fourth scroll of the *Nirvāṇa [Sūtra]* says: 'At one time I preached one vehicle, one path, one practice, and one condition, capable of bringing great tranquility to sentient beings, severing forever all bonds, griefs, suffering, and the causes of suffering, causing all sentient beings to arrive at the single existence. My disciples did not understand my intention, and cried out among the great assembly: "The Tathāgata says that from srotāpannas up to arhats, all will attain the Buddha path!" and so forth.'