大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 84.22

84.22

Under the Commentary's statement, "First: the fulfillment of causes and perfection of fruition is the ocean of buddhahood," above it was clarified generally, and from here below it is explained individually. Each line contains two meanings: first, an interpretation of the line itself, as in saying "causes and fruition are perfected," which corresponds to the sūtra's phrase "the mind that in the past sought all-knowledge," where "all-knowledge" is the fruition and the "mind that sought" is the cause. Second, in saying "is the ocean of buddhahood," it harmonizes and equates them with the ten oceans of the first assembly, and the lines below are all like this. Moreover, the interpretations of each line all arise by picking up on what precedes them; as in the second, which says "once perfected, one must expound the Dharma," the two characters "once perfected" pick up on the perfection of fruition and arise from it; the rest may be understood by deduction. The ninth is the ocean of establishment.