大華嚴經略策 1.33

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第二十六、辨玄所以。問：事理懸隔一多不同，如何無礙重重涉入？答：因廣難量略陳一二：一法無定性故，以一非定一故能即多，多非定多故能即一。經云「金剛圍山數無量，悉能安置一毛端，欲知至大有小相，菩薩以此初發心。」二法性融通故，謂若唯約事則互相礙不得即入，若唯約理則無可即入，今不異理之一事全攝理性時，令彼不異理之多事隨所依理皆於一中現。若一事攝理不盡則理有分限失，若一事攝理皆盡而多事不隨現則事在理外失。今既一事攝理皆盡，多事豈不於一中現？故經云「一切法門無盡海，同會一法道場中」等。謹對。

Twenty-sixth: Determining the Reason for the Mysteries. Question: Phenomena and principle are widely separated, and the one and the many are not the same; how can they interpenetrate layer upon layer without hindrance? Answer: Because the causes are broad and difficult to measure, I will briefly set forth one or two: First, because dharmas have no fixed nature: since the one is not fixedly one, it can be identical to the many; since the many are not fixedly many, they can be identical to the one. A sūtra says: 'The Vajra-surrounding mountains, limitless in number, / Can all be placed on the tip of a single hair; / Wishing to know that the supreme great has the mark of the small, / The bodhisattva thereby first generates the mind.' Second, because the Dharma-nature is interfusing and penetrating: that is, if one considers only phenomena, they mutually obstruct each other and cannot be identical or enter; if one considers only principle, there is nothing that can be identical or enter. Now, when a single phenomenon that is not different from principle completely subsumes the nature of principle, it causes those many phenomena that are not different from principle, according with the principle they rely upon, to all appear within the one. If a single phenomenon did not completely subsume principle, there would be the fault of principle having limits; if a single phenomenon completely subsumed principle yet the many phenomena did not appear along with it, there would be the fault of phenomena lying outside of principle. Now, since a single phenomenon completely subsumes principle, how could the many phenomena not appear within the one? Therefore a sūtra says: 'The inexhaustible ocean of all Dharma gates / Meets together within the bodhimaṇḍa of a single dharma,' and so on. Respectfully answered.