金光明經文句記 4.80

4.80

Second, from 'these words' downward, he reverses this in terms of retaining the meaning. When Śāriputra first met Aśvajit, who spoke a verse expressing the meaning of the three truths—namely, suffering, origination, and cessation—in order to cause him to realize it quickly, he did not mention the truth of the path. Upon hearing it once, Śāriputra immediately awakened to the first fruition. When he in turn explained it to Maudgalyāyana, Maudgalyāyana only awakened upon hearing it a second time. One explanation is brief, while a second explanation is extensive; does this not show that in retaining meaning, the brief is for the sharp and the extensive is for the dull?