大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 69.48

69.48

Regarding the commentary's statement, "Question: Beginners...", the question and answer follow here. This broadly addresses the loss of not receiving exhortation, taking the benefit of exhortation as the question. It first raises two questions, and below fully provides two answers. First, it uses four meanings to answer the necessity of exhortation. The answer to the first question is evident. Later, below "Only when there is this profound and esoteric...," it answers the second question regarding presence or absence. Now this answer states: There is definitely the Buddha's exhortation; there is no case of lacking an exhortation. This itself has three parts: 1. directly clarifying that none lacks exhortation and tends toward quiescence; 2. below "Furthermore, even suppose...," clarifying by hypothetical assumption; 3. below "In order to show...," concluding with the statement on the loss incurred from not receiving exhortation.