大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 16.38

16.38

Regarding the commentary from "Fourth, deriving the name by specific explanation" and so forth: in deriving the name here, each takes the specific meaning of the preceding seven characters, all explained by two meanings by analogy, which can be understood from the preceding. The explanation of the name here refers to the five pairs in the previous comparative discussion of opening and combining, merely excluding the pair of dharma and metaphor and using the remaining four pairs. Because in the pair of dharma and metaphor, the single character "flower" already belongs to the causal approach, it is omitted. Among the four pairs, compared to the preceding there are two differences: first, the former proceeded from the broad to the narrow, hence first clarifying teaching and meaning; now it proceeds from the narrow to the broad, hence first clarifying essence and function. Furthermore, the former explained from the lower to the higher, hence first clarifying teaching and meaning; now it explains from the higher to the lower, hence clarifying teaching and meaning later. And among the former five pairs, the causal and fruitional within persons was clarified later because the cause is the character "flower," borrowing the metaphor of the flower, and so was clarified later, as the meaning of proceeding from the broad to the narrow had already been exhausted previously.