金光明經文句記 6.167

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二、「知有」下二行半，就能覺智行讚佛報身，三：初、約法。「知有」下二句，讚報智也。知者，照也。有即俗，非有即真，本性清淨即中。以一切種智知照三諦，則冥深契廣、事理周極，名佛無上報智也。「希有」下二句，讚佛助行功德。重言希有者，歎美之鄭重也，下皆例然。因中戒定萬行，有排障敵惡之力，名功；助發大智，成佛大果，名德。《法華》云「久修業所得」，即無上報，故謂如來功德也。

Second, the two and a half lines from "Knowing the existent" praise the Buddha's Reward Body with respect to the wisdom and practice that can realize it, in three parts: First, in terms of Dharma: The two lines from "Knowing the existent" praise the reward wisdom. "Knowing" means illuminating. The existent is the conventional; the non-existent is the true; the fundamentally pure nature is the middle. Using the wisdom of all modes to know and illuminate the three truths, one then obscurely unites with the deep and accords with the vast, with phenomenal aspects and principle being thoroughly consummate; this is called the Buddha's unsurpassed reward wisdom. The two lines from "Rare" praise the virtues of the Buddha's auxiliary practices. Repeating "rare" is an earnestness of praise, and the same applies below. In the causal stage, the myriad practices of precepts and concentration have the power to eliminate obstacles and oppose evil, which is called "merit" (gong); assisting the arousal of great wisdom and achieving the Buddha's great fruition is called "virtue" (de). The Lotus Sūtra says "attained through long-cultivated practice," which is the unsurpassed reward; hence it is called the Tathāgata's virtue.