大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 10.5

10.5

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.