妙法蓮華經玄贊 4.7

4.7

Third is the essence that hides the inferior and conforms to the superior: The text below says of itself: "Because of explaining the wisdom of the buddhas, the buddhas appear in the world; only this one matter is real, the other two are not true; this dharma abides in its dharma-status; the aspects of the world abide constantly; having known this at the place of awakening, the Guide taught it by expedient means." The "Chapter on the Discrimination of Merits" says: "If for the sake of unsurpassed, right, and complete awakening, one were to practice the five pāramitās for eighty hundred thousand nayutas of kalpas, it would not equal someone generating faith for a single thought-moment; the merits obtained are beyond compare." This is because the two kinds—principle and wisdom—of the buddha fruition are named the Single Vehicle. Principle, congealed and fundamentally existent, free from entanglements, is called nirvāṇa; wisdom, illuminating and newly produced, with fruition perfected, is called right awakening. These are the vast source of the four virtues and the sublime root of the three knowledges. Therefore it is proclaimed that their appearance in the world is for that vision of wisdom; with the two of principle and wisdom as the essence of the Single Vehicle, the nature of wisdom and the aspect of wisdom together are named wisdom.