華嚴經探玄記 4.14

4.14

In the second part, directly teaching in response to conditions, there are two divisions: first, the initial three chapters directly and generally answer the earlier questions; second, the subsequent three chapters raise specific questions and give specific answers as debates arise from treatises. Another interpretation: the first three are the conditions that can generate practice; the subsequent three are the characteristics of the generated practice. Yet another interpretation: the former are the objective realms of fruition that are perceived; the latter are the causal practices that can perceive them. Because this practice of faith is an upāya for the abodes and has no separate stage of its own, there was initially no question.