[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) › [大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736) › 2.11 # 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 2.11 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 2.11 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.2.11) 疏「若夫高不可仰，則積行菩薩曝鰓鱗於龍門」下，第七成益頓超。文有十義。初有二義，總顯高深，明權小莫測；後八正明成益頓圓。又前二高深，反顯成益，明權小不測，由昔無因，反勸眾生令信仰故；後八順顯成益，謂能頓能圓，令必受故。今初，即第一明高遠。若泰華倚天、岷峨拂漢，難仰其頂，故《論語》云「仰之彌高，鑽之彌堅。」積行菩薩者，〈出現品〉云「設有菩薩，於無量百千億那由他劫，修行六波羅蜜，修習種種菩提分法。若未聞此如來不思議大威德法門，或時聞已，不信不解、不順不入，不得名為真實菩薩，以不能生如來家故。若得聞此如來無量不思議無障無礙智慧法門，聞已信解隨順悟入，當知此人生如來家等。」如魚登龍門，若得登者即化為龍，如入華嚴之機也。若登不過者，曝鰓鱗於龍門之下，如假名菩薩，即權教次第修者。 > Regarding the commentary's statement below, "As for its height, it cannot be looked up to: thus bodhisattvas of accumulated practice expose their gills and scales at the Dragon Gate": this is the seventh \[section\], the sudden transcendence in attaining benefit. The text has ten meanings. The first two generally reveal its height and depth, explaining that the provisional and the lesser cannot fathom it; the latter eight directly explain that the attainment of benefit is sudden and complete. Furthermore, the first two, height and depth, inversely reveal the attainment of benefit, explaining that the provisional and lesser do not fathom it because in the past they lacked the cause, thereby inversely exhorting sentient beings to have faith; the latter eight directly reveal the attainment of benefit, stating that it can be sudden and complete, causing them necessarily to accept it. Now, the first is the first, explaining its height and distance. Like Mounts Tai and Hua leaning against the sky, or Min and E brushing the Milky Way, their peaks are difficult to look up to; thus the Lunyu says: "Looking up to it, it is all the higher; boring into it, it is all the harder." As for "bodhisattvas of accumulated practice," the chapter "Appearance \[of the Tathāgata\]" says: "Suppose there is a bodhisattva who for immeasurable hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of kalpas cultivates the six pāramitās and trains in the various factors of bodhi. If he has not heard this teaching of the Tathāgata's inconceivable great awe-inspiring virtue, or having heard it at times, does not have faith, does not understand, does not accord with it, and does not enter it, he cannot be called a true bodhisattva, because he cannot be born into the family of the Tathāgata. If one is able to hear this teaching of the Tathāgata's immeasurable, inconceivable, unobstructed, and unhindered wisdom, and having heard it, believes, understands, accords with, and awakens and enters it, one should know that this person is born into the family of the Tathāgata, and so forth." It is like fish ascending the Dragon Gate: if they succeed in ascending, they transform into dragons, which is like the capacities that enter the Avataṃsaka. If they ascend but cannot cross over, they expose their gills and scales below the Dragon Gate, like nominal bodhisattvas—namely, those who cultivate gradually in the provisional teachings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.2.10) - [Next: 2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.2.12) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736~en-mt.2.11) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [新華嚴經論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1739.2.26) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.2.11) · Pramāṇa