大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 26.18

26.18

Regarding the Commentary's 'The treatise states: That is, the equality cognition' and so forth: This was already cited fully above. First cognition and then practice—both are contributory causes (pratyaya-hetu). Practice is also taken as cause and cognition as condition; hence they are called cause and condition. Both above are also causes, taking the bodhisattvas of the ten grounds as conditions, just as above where transforming into a pure land in accordance with the sentient beings to be transformed is the fruitional characteristic. On the first ground, one sees a kṣetra equal to a hundred thousand three-thousandfold worlds, hence called 'small'. On the second ground it is a thousand, on the third ground ten thousand, and so on. The later and later are greater than the earlier and earlier; the earlier are inferior and the later gradually superior. The meanings of the grounds cited below are all as in the chapter itself.