大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 52.10

52.10

Regarding the Commentary's section "Third, the central theme and orientation," the text of the Commentary has three parts: first, directly clarifying the central theme and orientation; second, separately showing the essential nature; third, questions, answers, and discriminative examination. Regarding the Commentary's statement, "In general there are two meanings," the former meaning takes sequential arrangement as the central theme and all-pervading integration as the orientation. However, the general encompasses the distinct meanings: realization is the first two—the first being the realization and conformity, and the second being that which is realized; wisdom is the third; abandoning is the fourth; cultivation of practice is the fifth and sixth; provisional lodging of stages is the seventh and ninth; realization and cultivation of practice together constitute the eighth. The essential central themes do not go beyond the nine above, and are also subsumed within the general.