大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 25.52

25.52

疏「何者」下，三彰非所以，尋意可知。而猶恐難見，請以喻明。如一槃中盛於十楪，十楪之中各盛十彈子。一槃如剎海，一楪如剎種，彈子如一剎。若言一槃之中有一槃彈子，塵數無差。豈得以一槃之內彈子無差以充其數？一槃彈子但有一百，一彈子之塵已難知數，況一百彈子盡抹為塵，則數不可量，便將一百之數以充一槃彈子之塵數，故為孟浪也。得斯喻意，尋數易了。

Regarding the commentary's text from "Why is this?" onward: this is the third part, revealing the reason why it is mistaken; one can understand it by searching out the meaning. Yet still fearing that it might be difficult to see, let me clarify it by means of an analogy. It is like ten small dishes placed in a single tray, and ten pellets placed in each of the ten dishes. The single tray is like the ocean of kṣetras; one small dish is like a kṣetra-species; and a pellet is like a single kṣetra. If one says that within a single tray there are pellets [equivalent to] a tray's dust motes without distinction, how could one use the number of pellets in a single tray without distinction to fill out that number? The pellets in a single tray are only one hundred; the dust motes of even a single pellet are already difficult to count, not to mention that if one hundred pellets were ground completely into dust, the number would be immeasurable. To then take the number of one hundred to fill out the number of dust motes of the pellets in a single tray—this is why it is reckless. If one grasps the point of this analogy, following the number is easy to understand.