大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 40.6

40.6

As for the commentary's statement, 'It also generally praises the preceding praise of the profound and difficult-to-explain; if one were to match them individually, it would cause realization and the like to be mutually restricted': formerly, the twenty-three verses praising the preceding profound and difficult-to-explain were divided into ten: the first four verses praised the extremely profound; the second, one verse praised difficult to know; the third, two verses praised difficult to distinguish; the fourth, two verses below 'bodhicitta' praised difficult to believe and understand; the fifth, three verses praised difficult to realize; the sixth, two verses praised difficult to practice; the seventh, two verses praised difficult to penetrate; the eighth, two verses below 'understanding the self-nature of dharmas' praised difficult to contemplate; the ninth, two verses praised difficult to explain; the tenth, three verses praised difficult to measure. Therefore it says, 'if one were to match them individually.' The statement 'it would cause difficult to realize and the like to be mutually restricted' means: as in 'all solitary conquerors and śrāvakas all take the generation of the mind as the root,' which was matched to 'difficult to realize,' were the ten powers, eighteen unshared dharmas, and so forth in the preceding text easy to realize? Therefore it says they would be mutually restricted. Now, these twenty-three verses all universally apply to difficult to believe, difficult to know, difficult to realize, and so forth; hence it says that generally praising the preceding would cause realization and the like to be mutually restricted.