[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法華玄贊義決](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724) › 1.14 # 法華玄贊義決 1.14 法華玄贊義決 1.14 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1.14) 五為明五，有七：一顯智慧甚深故，論釋云：智慧有五甚深：一義、二體、三內證、四依止、五無上甚深，令生忻證。二顯教門有五種難故，論牒經云：其智慧門難見難覺難知難解難入，令生推求願欲聞故。三為顯五濁，下云所謂劫濁等，令生厭離顯佛大悲故。四顯五劣不為說一，〈方便品〉云：鈍根樂小法貪著於生死，於諸無量佛不行深妙道，眾苦所惱亂，為是說涅槃，令捨劣人故。五顯五德為說一乘，下云有佛子心淨柔軟亦利根無量諸佛所而行深妙道，令學勝人故。六明五乘令知根性，一雨所潤而各生長，論云：為一向求大乘者增上慢云無別乘，令知種種乘異故，說雨喻令識根機隨宜化故。七顯五緣方說一實，〈化城品〉云：自知涅槃時到，眾又清淨信解堅固，了達空法深入禪定，令知法難聞要根熟故。 > Fifth, there are seven items clarifying 'five': (1) to demonstrate that wisdom is profoundly deep, as the treatise explains: 'Wisdom has five profundities: first, meaning; second, essence; third, internal realization; fourth, support; fifth, unsurpassed profundity,' to arouse joyful longing for realization; (2) to demonstrate that the gate of teaching has five difficulties, as the treatise quotes the sūtra: 'Its gate of wisdom is difficult to see, difficult to perceive, difficult to know, difficult to understand, and difficult to enter,' to arouse investigation and the desire to hear it; (3) to demonstrate the five defilements, as the text below says: 'the so-called kalpa defilement' and so forth, to arouse revulsion and detachment and manifest the Buddha's great compassion; (4) to demonstrate that because of the five inferiorities he did not teach the 'one' for them, as the 'Expedient Means' chapter says: 'With dull faculties, delighting in lesser dharmas, greedily attached to saṃsāra, not practicing the deep and wonderful path before immeasurable Buddhas, tormented by manifold sufferings—for them I taught nirvāṇa,' in order to make \[beings\] abandon inferior people; (5) to demonstrate the five virtues for the sake of which he taught the ekayāna, as the text below says: 'There are sons of the Buddha whose minds are pure, pliant, and also of sharp faculties, who have practiced the deep and wonderful path before immeasurable Buddhas,' to inspire them to learn from superior people; (6) to clarify the five vehicles to make known their capacities and natures: being nourished by a single rain, they each grow, where the treatise says: 'For those who solely seek the Mahāyāna with overweening pride, saying there are no other vehicles, so that they may know the differences among the various vehicles, the parable of rain was taught' to make \[beings\] recognize faculties and capacities and convert them according to what is suitable; (7) to demonstrate that only when five conditions are met did he teach the one reality, as the 'Apparitional City' chapter says: 'Knowing for himself that the time for nirvāṇa had arrived, that the assembly was pure, their faith and resolve firm, having thoroughly comprehended empty dharmas and deeply entered dhyāna-concentration,' to make \[beings\] know that the Dharma is difficult to hear and that faculties must be mature. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1.13) - [Next: 1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1.15) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724~en-mt.1.14) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [法華遊意](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1722.1.26) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1.14) · Pramāṇa