觀無量壽佛經疏妙宗鈔 1.6.5

1.6.5

復問：今在何處？ 答曰：在迦蘭陀精舍。 須達思念欲見，于時忽見光明如晝。 尋道而出，城門自開，見佛聞法，證須陀洹。 」疏云「巨關」，即城門也。 今明「毛竪」，即驚覺也。 聞名生覺，即本性佛。 若論大經，追敘昔事方證初果，驗聞名時未能解了覺即本性，及前科中三寶十號亦涉於小。 今約跨節取意而談，五時示現身相名號說法度人，乃至聞者一念微解，一一皆是全性起修，當處無非本性佛法。 如前一化，增數諸行皆會圓常，四教四門唯詮一理。 不從跨節，焉消彼文？ 況文出《涅槃》，部已開會，故約驚覺示名字佛。

He asked again: ‘Where is he now?’ He answered: ‘At the Kalandaka monastery.’ Sudatta thought of wishing to see him, and at that moment he suddenly saw a radiance like daylight. Following the road he went forth; the city gate opened on its own. Seeing the Buddha and hearing the Dharma, he realized the fruit of srotāpanna.” The commentary says “great gate,” which is the city gate. Now clarifying “hairs standing on end” is the awakening of astonishment. Hearing the name and giving rise to awakening is the Buddha of original nature. If one considers the *Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra*, it was recounting past events only after which he realized the first fruit, proving that when he heard the name, he had not yet been able to understand that awakening is original nature, and the Three Jewels and ten epithets in the preceding section also bordered on the Hīnayāna. Now, speaking in terms of leaping over periods and drawing out the underlying intent, the physical marks, names, preaching of Dharma, and saving of beings manifested during the five periods, down to a single thought of slight understanding in the listener—each and every one is the total nature giving rise to cultivation, and right where it is, there is nothing that is not the Buddha-dharma of original nature. Just as in the earlier whole teaching of a lifetime, the various incrementally numbered practices all merge into the perfect and eternal, and the four teachings and four gates only express a single principle. If one does not proceed from leaping over periods, how could one interpret that passage? Moreover, since the passage comes from the *Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra*, where the divisions have already been opened and reconciled, it therefore explains the Buddha in verbal expression in terms of the awakening of astonishment.