大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 23.17

23.17

Regarding the Commentary's passage from "the practice and cultivation being unobstructed" downwards: this reveals the reason for answering within the assembly itself. Due to two meanings, it is answered within the assembly itself: first, because practice and cultivation are unobstructed. That is, taking the practices cultivated in the preceding six stages, they are universally cultivated across all stages without being restricted to a stage; hence it is called unobstructed. Since stage names are submerged, there is no superiority or inferiority, so it is answered within the assembly itself. Second, the six stages are suddenly accomplished. Even if there are stages, they are suddenly accomplished at once, which differs from distinguishing cause and result in terms of intellectual understanding; thus they are answered in a single assembly. When it says "the assembly itself" here, it refers to the questions and answers within the assembly itself.