大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 2.2

2.2

Regarding the commentary's "The vast immediately enters the indivisible, and dust motes and hairs envelop without an exterior": this is the second approach, the unimpeded freedom of the broad and the narrow. The upper clause shows the great able to enter the small; the lower clause shows the small able to contain the great. Although there is [mention of] identity and entering, the intended meaning is the broad and narrow. "Indivisible" means small; miniaturized, it has no interior, and because it has no interior, it has no middle space. "Without an exterior" means great; expanded, it has no exterior. That which has no exterior is the vast bodies and lands, which immediately enter the dust motes and hairs that have no interior; hence it is called the unimpeded freedom of the broad and the narrow. Whether identical or entering, both attain the unimpeded freedom of the broad and the narrow. The sūtra says: "The Iron Ring Mountains, measureless in number, can all be placed upon the tip of a single hair. Desiring to know that the utmost great has the mark of the small, the bodhisattva thereby produces the initial resolve." The utmost great having the mark of the small is the unimpeded freedom of the broad and the narrow. It also says: "He can make small world-realms into great world-realms, and great world-realms into small world-realms," and so forth.