大方廣佛華嚴經疏 6.71

6.71

In the verses, there are also eleven. In the first, the first half is pure light universally illuminating, and the second half is constantly benefiting, destroying evil and generating good. Breaking delusion into wisdom, and so forth, constitute many skillful means. The second and third are easy to understand. In the fourth, the first half is all ascetic practices, which have four difficulties: first, the difficulty of turning one's back on oneself to benefit the world; second, the difficulty that the aspect of practice is purely suffering; third, the difficulty of passing through all realms of existence; fourth, the difficulty of boundless time and kalpas. Fully practicing through these, it is said 'all'. The next line clarifies the deep mind's joy, which also has four meanings: first, through ascetic practices for beings, fulfilling the original vow, the meaning lies in the first line; second, wisdom illuminates that the nature of suffering is fundamentally empty and quiescent, which is the bright light illuminating emptiness; third, being universally pure and unpolluted, it is not mixed with poison, which is being universally pure like empty space; fourth, oneself and others have results and it is not without benefit, which is the entire third line. The fifth and sixth are easy to understand. The meaning of the net of light is as in the 'Bhadraśrī Chapter'. In the seventh, thoroughly clarifying, it raises the inferior to manifest the superior, so as to explain what is inconceivable, and hence can accomplish various wondrous virtues. In saying that the world does not match it: although the world has much light, its benefit is not ultimate; though the Buddha's light is little, it inevitably reaches the true source and cannot be exhausted; hence one illustrates many with one. The eighth, ninth, and tenth, the text is also easy to understand. In the eleventh, the first line is the Dharma-gate capable of illuminating; just as in a single sun-palace a thousand rays of light shine together, whichever dharma is raised, there are boundless gates. However, there are two meanings: first, regarding identical categories: like a single gate of impermanence having birth, old age, sickness, death, gathering, dispersing, uniting, separating, gain, loss, formation, destruction, the three disasters and four marks, the outer vessel and the inner body, an instant and a lifetime, arising, ceasing, transforming, defilement, purity, concealment, and manifestation—all are the gate of impermanence, and the rest are also like this; second, in terms of the fusion of nature, it cannot be exhausted. The next two lines mean universally operating the illumination: as one sun traverses the heavens, day after day is unending; as one gate goes through phenomena, kalpa after kalpa is hard to exhaust. Though skillful means have many gates, they ultimately return to a single culmination. 'Vast' means boundless, 'great' means unsurpassable.