大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 71.50

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Regarding the Commentary's 'The treatise master summarizes them overall into seven': this means summarizing the general clarification above as the first vessel, and summarizing the final conclusion below as the seventh vessel. In 'One: expounding the dharma expounded corresponding to the vessel', it first cites the treatise, and from 'namely, in the general' onward points to the sūtra. Regarding the Commentary's 'In the specific, first, being able to follow', etc.: the specific merely opens out the general; therefore, it first matches the two phrases in the general, matching the first and last six characters to the phrase in the sūtra on wisdom following practice, and matching the various dense forests in between to all places of practice. But the Commentary merely correlates them to the treatise, because previously its intent was to correlate the treatise to the sūtra. Regarding the Commentary's 'First: living beings' minds, faculties, natures, desires, and understandings': this restates the sūtra. The sūtra lacks the word 'mind', but the treatise text has it. Furthermore, this 'mind' is needed in the metaphor below; hence it is added according to the meaning of the treatise. However, the treatise sūtra states in full: 'After the bodhisattva has known thus, he expounds the Dharma for living beings in accordance with reality, causing them to attain liberation: in accordance with the differences of mind, in accordance with the differences of anusaya, in accordance with the differences of faculties, in accordance with the differences of faith, in accordance with the differences of realms, in accordance with the residual impressions of various practices, in accordance with the wisdom of all realms, in accordance with the dense forest of nature-practice, in accordance with the turning of residual impressions of defilements and karma generated, in accordance with the differences of categories, in accordance with the faith and understanding of the vehicles, he expounds the Dharma, causing them to attain liberation.' Explanation: The treatise divides [the teaching] into seven vessels based on the above sūtra. The first has the general 'mind', which the present sūtra omits. After 'mind' there is 'anusaya', which in the present sūtra is 'dormant fetters' and is placed later. What the present sūtra calls 'nature' is in the second place, whereas the treatise sūtra says 'nature-practice' and the text is placed later. Therefore, in the present Commentary, it merely follows the sūtra text to harmonize with the treatise's meaning in order to correlate them. As for 'These five directly reveal the already accomplished faith and so forth': the single item of 'mind' is only the general support and has not yet become a vessel. The treatise sūtra contains the word 'mind', but the explanation does not restate it, saying only 'expounding the Dharma in accordance with faculties and in accordance with faith'; therefore, the Commentary only says 'Dharma vessels of already accomplished faith and so forth' without mentioning 'mind'. Because it is the general support, it says there are five.