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第五、作「逆照」義。明如來道成正覺時，一念併逆照竟。後境自去來，知不新知。如天子初登極時，併作制法，後人犯者，隨輕重治之，不復更制，佛智照境亦爾也。此義亦不可。佛智照境，何曾暫息？而言成道時照，後時不照──縱如此，終不與境相拔也。

Fifth, an explanation proposes the meaning of "retrospective illumination". It explains that when the Tathāgata realized correct awakening on the path, in a single thought-moment he retrospectively illuminated everything completely at once. Thereafter, objects come and go of themselves, while cognition does not newly cognize. Just as when an emperor first ascends the throne, he establishes all laws at once, and when people violate them later, he punishes them according to the severity [of the offense] without promulgating laws anew, the Buddha's cognition illuminating objects is also like this. This doctrine is also unacceptable. When has the Buddha's cognition illuminating objects ever ceased for even an instant? Yet you say that he illuminated when realizing the path and did not illuminate later—even if this were so, it would ultimately fail to correspond to the objects.