新華嚴經論 3.48

3.48

Section three, clarifying the differences in doctrinal meanings: The Great Hero of the three realms accords with reality and is quiescent; body, mind, nature, and marks have no doing whatsoever. Yet through nature-origination great compassion accords with the identical essence of dharmas, arising from unconditioned wisdom and teachings according with conditions. Just as a single rain universally nourishes, letting growth be distinct, sometimes the names are identical but the meanings differ—namely, the ten grounds of the gradual teaching and the ten grounds of the perfect teaching, and so forth. Sometimes the words differ but the meanings are identical—the dharma-gates of the worlds of the ten directions are all the dharma-gate of the four truths. Sometimes principle and phenomena mutually diverge; sometimes essence and function thoroughly penetrate each other; sometimes they are initial, gradual, sudden, or perfect. The Dharma is not bestowed of itself; it is established as teachings according to capacities. If the capacity is weak, the dharma is inferior; if the vessel is broad, the Way is complete. Matching what is fitting for beings, great and small are seen according [to them]. Sometimes they have identical words but different understandings; sometimes they have different words and equal knowledge. According to what their class can bear, provisions are made to meet the time. Sometimes they delight in the carriages outside the gate, abandoning the vehicle that roams in the open ground. Now, roughly speaking of the topmost followers and the gradual assembly, I shall briefly set forth the distinctions of principles and meanings in ten dharmas, so that beginning learners will not be hindered from the ultimate by clinging to the provisional. The ten gates are: