大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 84.35

84.35

The Commentary states: "Ninth, the ten phrases in the pores below answer the previous nine questions": because among the previous ten, the one question on supernatural faculties had already been answered by the previous seven directions. According to the explanation below, since five phrases answer the five causal questions and four phrases answer the five fruitional questions, why is it called answering nine? Because the question on supernatural faculties is highlighted separately again. Thus, having already answered it extensively, it merely says nine. The Commentary states: "This phrase should reveal the aspiration to seek": because the text says "emitting clouds of sounds explaining the ocean of upāya of the bodhisattva practices of the three times", it designates this as answering practice; since they mutually directly answer practice, this phrase essentially reveals the mind that aspires to seek all-knowledge, as practice begins with the mention of cultivation.