觀音義疏 2.53

2.53

菩薩之人處處得去，鈍者亦同二乘，二乘之人始自於此得見佛性，故云：「始見我身，聞我所說。」即皆信受入如來慧，證前大機人初得醍醐也。除先修習學小乘者，我今亦令得聞此經，入如來慧，即證小機，始於《法華》得入醍醐也。若復有鈍根，於《法華》不悟，更於《般若》調熟，至于《涅槃》說勝三修，即明常住，得見佛性，乃是醍醐。是為同居穢國，示現佛身，說圓漸法；或示種種身，說圓漸法。

Bodhisattvas can progress everywhere; dull ones are also like those of the two vehicles. Persons of the two vehicles only begin to see the Buddha-nature here; thus it is said: "They first saw my body and heard what I taught," and then all faithfully accepted it and entered the Tathāgata's wisdom, which confirms that persons of great capacity first attain clarified butter. Excepting those who previously cultivated and studied the small vehicle, I now also cause them to hear this sūtra and enter the Tathāgata's wisdom, which confirms that those of small capacity only begin to enter clarified butter in the Lotus Sūtra. If there are again those of dull faculties who do not awaken at the Lotus Sūtra, they are further tempered and ripened in the Prajñā teachings, until the Nirvāṇa Sūtra preaches the superior three cultivations, directly clarifying eternal presence, and they attain seeing the Buddha-nature, which is indeed clarified butter. In this way, in the defiled land of co-dwelling, he manifests a Buddha body to preach the perfect and gradual dharmas; or manifests various bodies to preach the perfect and gradual dharmas.