[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) › 56.3 # 大方廣佛華嚴經疏 56.3 大方廣佛華嚴經疏 56.3 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [56.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.56.3) 第四「爾時善財」下念恩辭退。慶聞後友故喜躍，悵辭德音故悲淚，下諸善友倣此可知。然後二段，義雖屬後，文屬前會。問：大聖有智能演，善財有機堪受，何不頓為宣示，而別指他人歷事諸友？明此深旨，略申十義：一總相而明，為於後學作軌範故，謂善財求法不懈，善友說法無吝故。二顯行緣勝故，謂真善友是全梵行，如闍王之遇耆域，猶淨藏之化妙嚴等。三破愚執故，謂令不師愚心，虛己遍求故。四破見慢故，謂令不觀種性，不恥下問，遍敬事故。五破遍空執故，謂不唯無求，無求之中吾故求之。六令即事即行，寧可少聞便能證入，不在多聞而不證故。七為破說法者攝屬之心，我徒我資，彼此見故。八為顯寄位漸修入故，若不推後，則位位中住，無勝進故。九為顯佛法甚深廣故，善友尚皆謙推，凡流豈當臆斷。十顯善財與友成緣起故，謂能入所入無二相故，無善友之外善財，則一即一切，明善財歷位也；無善財之外善友故，一切即一，多位成就皆在善財，由見卷舒自在無礙。上之十義，初一通於師資、次五多約資說、第七約師、後三約教，思之可知。 > Fourth, from "At that time, Sudhana" onward, he recollects kindness and takes leave. Rejoicing to hear of the subsequent friend, he leaps with joy; sorrowfully parting with the voice of virtue, he weeps tears of sorrow. The other good friends below can be understood by analogy with this. However, although the meaning of the latter two sections belongs to what follows, the text belongs to the preceding assembly. Question: The Great Sage had the wisdom to expound, and Sudhana had the capacity to receive; why did he not expound it all at once, but instead specifically directed him to other people to serve various friends one by one? To elucidate this profound intent, ten meanings are briefly set forth: 1. Explained generally, it serves as a model for later students, meaning that Sudhana seeks the Dharma without remissness, and good friends preach the Dharma without stinginess. 2. To show that the conditions for practice are superior, meaning that a true good friend is the complete holy life (brahmacarya), just as King Ajātaśatru met Jīvaka, or as Vimalagarbha transformed Śubhavyūha. 3. To shatter foolish clinging, meaning causing one not to take one's foolish mind as teacher, but to empty oneself and seek everywhere. 4. To shatter pride in views, meaning causing one not to look at lineage, not to be ashamed to ask inferiors, and to respect and serve everywhere. 5. To shatter clinging to pervasive emptiness, meaning not merely seeking nothing, but seeking within the absence of seeking. 6. To cause practice directly in immediate engagement with phenomena, meaning it is better to realize entry through hearing little than to fail to realize through hearing much. 7. To shatter the mindset of preachers claiming possession, thinking 'my disciples, my followers', with dualistic views of self and other. 8. To show gradual cultivation and entry assigned to stages; for if one did not yield to the subsequent, one would abide within stage after stage and there would be no superior progress. 9. To show that the Buddhadharma is extremely profound and vast; since even good friends modestly defer, how could ordinary people make arbitrary judgments? 10. To show that Sudhana and the friends form pratītyasamutpāda; because that which can enter and that which is entered lack dual marks, there is no Sudhana outside of the good friends, so the one is immediately the all, elucidating Sudhana's traversal of the stages; and because there are no good friends outside of Sudhana, the all is immediately the one, and the accomplishments of many stages are all within Sudhana, through which seeing expansion and contraction are free and unobstructed. Among these ten meanings, the first applies commonly to master and disciple; the next five pertain mostly to the disciple; the seventh pertains to the master; and the last three pertain to the teaching. This can be understood by reflecting on it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 56.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.56.2) - [Next: 56.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.56.4) - [Up: 56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.56) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735~en-mt.56.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.56.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1735.56.3) · Pramāṇa