大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 84.78

84.78

Regarding the Commentary's statement, "Furthermore, the Great Vehicle subsumes the Lesser Vehicle" and so on, this is the third point: explaining the difference between universality and partiality. The Lesser Vehicle is like the hundred rivers, which do not subsume the great sea; the Great Vehicle is like the great sea, which inevitably subsumes the hundred rivers. As for the statement, "Lesser cognition cannot fathom great cognition," this is the meaning from the Zhuangzi, which says: "Lesser cognition does not fathom great cognition; a short life does not fathom a long life. The morning mushroom knows not the day's end and the new moon; the cicada knows not spring and autumn." How could the firefly-glow of the Lesser Vehicle know the radiance of the sun?