大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 10.5

10.5

疏「前之四教」下，法合。以四教合於百川，圓教合於大海。於中，先正合、後解妨。今初。言「尚非三四況初二」者，合前，故隨一滴逈異百川，即舉勝顯劣。三即終教、四即頓教，初二即小乘及與始教。雖有戒善，是圓教戒善，尚不同終頓之勝，以彼不能事事無礙故。況初二之劣，以彼尚不得二空及事理無礙等故。其猶大海，尚異江河，況於溝洫。

Regarding the Commentary's passage from "The preceding four teachings..." onward: this is the doctrinal correlation. It correlates the four teachings to the hundred rivers, and the perfect teaching to the great ocean. Within it, first is the proper correlation, and second is resolving objections. Now for the first: the statement "It is not even the third or fourth, how much less the first two" correlates to the preceding; therefore, any single drop is vastly different from the hundred rivers, which is to cite the superior to reveal the inferior. The third is the final teaching, the fourth is the sudden teaching, and the first two are the Hīnayāna and the initial teaching. Although there are precepts and wholesome deeds, these are the precepts and wholesome deeds of the perfect teaching, which are still not the same as the superiority of the final and sudden, because those [teachings] cannot achieve phenomenon and phenomenon unobstructed. How much less the inferiority of the first two, because they have not yet attained the two emptinesses, principle and phenomena unobstructed, and so forth. It is like the great ocean still being different from rivers, how much more so from ditches and drains.