大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 2.4

2.4

Regarding the commentary's "Simultaneously complete, comparable to a drop of the ocean": this is the fourth approach, the simultaneous completeness and correspondence. Like a single drop of the great ocean, which is immediately endowed with the tastes of the hundred rivers and the ten virtues, so any single phenomenon subsumes inexhaustible phenomena. And the nine approaches below take this single approach as their general synthesis; "simultaneous" clarifies that there is no before and after, and "complete" means that what is subsumed leaves nothing out. Regarding the "ten virtues," the Daśabhūmika-sūtra says: "First, it gradually becomes deeper in sequence; second, it does not harbor dead corpses; third, other waters entering it all lose their original names; fourth, it is universally of a single taste; fifth, it is endowed with measureless rare jewels; sixth, it is so deep that its bottom is difficult to reach; seventh, it is vast and measureless; eighth, it is the dwelling place of great beings; ninth, its tides do not exceed their limits; tenth, it universally receives the great rains." The Nirvāṇa Sūtra says: "Like a person entering the great ocean to bathe, he has thereby used the waters of all the rivers." Practicing in accordance with this, within a single practice the virtues cannot be exhausted.