大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 5.47

5.47

疏「夫教海冲深」下，二總辯深玄，有標、釋、結。今初。教海總含深廣，文略語深。法雲智光，略明深廣。下經云「一切諸佛雲雨說法，唯十地菩薩能安能受能攝能持，佛剎微塵法門海故、雲雨說法故。」〈夜摩偈讚品〉勝林菩薩云「譬如孟夏月，空淨無雲翳，赫日揚光輝，十方靡不充。其光無限量，無有能測知，有目斯尚然，何況盲冥者。諸佛亦如是，功德無邊際，不可思議劫，莫能分別知。」故云智光無際。「妙辯叵窮」者，《法華》云「諸法寂滅相，不可以言宣。是法不可示，言詞相寂滅。」故四辯八音不能談其狀也。普賢行願云「如來功德，假使十方一切諸佛，經不可說不可說佛剎微塵劫，相續演說不可窮盡。」

Regarding the commentary's passage beginning "Now, the ocean of the teaching is vast and deep": The second part generally distinguishes its profound mystery, containing the proposition, explanation, and conclusion. Now, the first: "The ocean of the teaching" holistically encompasses depth and breadth; its text is concise while its expression is profound. The cloud of dharma and light of wisdom concisely clarify depth and breadth. Later, the sūtra states: "All Buddhas expound the Dharma like clouds and rain; only a bodhisattva of the tenth bhūmi is capable of resting in it, receiving it, gathering it, and holding it, because it is an ocean of dharma-doors as numerous as the dust motes of Buddha-lands, and because the Dharma is expounded like clouds and rain." In the "Chapter on the Gāthās of Praise in the Yāma [Heaven]," Bodhisattva Jayavana states: "Just as in the first month of summer, / the sky is pure and free of cloud-veils, / the blazing sun shines with radiance, / and there is nowhere in the ten directions it does not fill. / Its light is limitless, / and none is capable of measuring or knowing it; / even for those with eyes this is so, / how much more so for the blind and darkened. / The Buddhas are also like this: / their merit is boundless; / throughout inconceivable kalpas, / none is able to discriminate and know it." Thus it is said that the light of wisdom is boundless. Regarding "wondrous eloquence cannot be exhausted": the Lotus Sūtra states: "The characteristic of the quiescent cessation of all dharmas / cannot be declared in words. / This dharma cannot be demonstrated; / the characteristic of words is quiescently ceased." Therefore, the four unhindered eloquences and the eight voices cannot express its form. The "Practices and Vows of Samantabhadra" states: "The merit of the Tathāgata, even if all Buddhas of the ten directions were to expound it continuously for kalpas as numerous as the dust motes of ineffable-ineffable Buddha-lands, could never be exhausted."