涅槃經遊意 1.204

1.204

次約四法明：亦體即是「四德」。此德亦無定，或一圓是「妙有」也；有時明二，即「妙有」及「我」；有時明「三德」隣「三修法」也；四、可解「五德」對彼五門；有時「八德」則八味也。

Next, explaining in terms of the four dharmas: their essence is precisely the 'four virtues'. These virtues are also not fixed: sometimes one in its completeness is 'sublime existence'; sometimes two are clarified, namely 'sublime existence' and 'self'; sometimes the 'three virtues' are clarified, adjoining the 'three cultivated dharmas'; four can be understood as 'five virtues' corresponding to those five gates; sometimes there are 'eight virtues', which are the eight flavors.