大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 55.4

55.4

Regarding the commentary's "Present means desire" below: this is the second [part], explaining the meaning of present and non-present. Regarding "The faculty is merely implicitly possessed": someone may possess the wisdom capable of hearing as an implicit possession, but does not yet desire to hear; hence it is called implicitly possessed. Implicitly possessed means accomplished from past lives. It is like the master of the five crests, who fully possessed the seven virtues and was capable of transmitting the six categories of teachings, yet was attached to his wife and servants and did not yet desire its teaching.