[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) › [大方廣佛華嚴經疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735) › 44.18 # 大方廣佛華嚴經疏 44.18 大方廣佛華嚴經疏 44.18 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [44.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.44.18) 第三大海十相明難度能度大果功德。先喻、後合，皆有總別。合中，總云不可移奪者，此有二義：一果海因，十地相不可奪其果海深廣之名。二地行因相，由依智海，不可奪其因行之稱，以是海家之相故、果家之因故，若奪因相則果亦不成。喻中約果名不可奪，法中舉因名不可奪，文影略耳。故論云「因果相順故」。云何相順？謂十地如大海，此總舉也。能度難度者，顯因順果也。如海十相方能成海，得大菩提果，故果順因也。如海成時不失十相，離十相而無海，離十地而無佛智，故十地即智海也。別中攝十為八：一易入功德，以漸故；二淨功德；三平等功德；四護功德，護自一味恒不失故；五利益功德，利世間故；六六七二句合為不竭功德，以深廣故。七住處功德，無功用行是菩薩所住故。經云大身者，以無量身修菩薩行，十身相作故。八末後二句合名護世間功德，九地潮不過限不誤傷物，知機授法不差根器。十地若無大海，水溺四洲，餘不能受，必生毀謗。又得此二法用護世間。 > Third, the ten marks of the great ocean clarify the virtue of the great fruit, difficult to cross yet able to cross. First the simile, then the correlation; both have general and particular aspects. In the correlation, generally stating 'unassailable' has two meanings: first, regarding the ocean of the fruit as cause, the characteristics of the ten stages cannot usurp its name of being deep and vast as the ocean of the fruit. Second, regarding the causal characteristics of the stage practices, because they rely on the ocean of wisdom, their designation as causal practices cannot be usurped, because they are marks belonging to the ocean and causes belonging to the fruit; if one usurps the causal characteristics, the fruit is also not established. In the simile, in terms of the fruit, its name is unassailable; in the Dharma, raising the cause, its name is unassailable: the text mutually implies this. Hence the Treatise says, 'Because cause and fruit correspond to each other.' How do they correspond? The ten stages are like the great ocean; this is the general presentation. 'Able to cross yet difficult to cross' shows the cause corresponding to the fruit. Only by possessing the ten marks of the ocean can it become an ocean and attain the fruit of great bodhi, so the fruit corresponds to the cause. When the ocean is formed, it does not lose its ten marks; apart from the ten marks there is no ocean, and apart from the ten stages there is no Buddha-wisdom, so the ten stages are precisely the ocean of wisdom. In the particular, the ten are subsumed under eight: first, the virtue of easy entry, because of its gradualness; second, the virtue of purity; third, the virtue of impartiality; fourth, the virtue of protection, because it constantly protects its own single flavor without losing it; fifth, the virtue of benefiting, because it benefits the world; sixth, combining the sixth and seventh lines into the virtue of inexhaustibility, because of being deep and vast; seventh, the virtue of dwelling place, because non-purposive practice is where the bodhisattva dwells. When the sūtra says 'great bodies', it is because they cultivate bodhisattva practices with immeasurable bodies, acting through the ten bodies; eighth, combining the last two lines, named the virtue of protecting the world: in the ninth stage, the tide does not exceed its limit and does not mistakenly injure beings, knowing the faculties to bestow the Dharma without mistaking the capacities; in the tenth stage, if there were no great ocean, the water would drown the four continents, and others could not receive it, necessarily producing slander. Furthermore, obtaining these two dharmas functions to protect the world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 44.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.44.17) - [Next: 44.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.44.19) - [Up: 44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.44) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735~en-mt.44.18) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.44.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.44.18) · Pramāṇa