金剛般若論會釋 1.81

1.81

上釋有時，下釋有因，及釋由此當生實相。文復分二，初、明有四因故生實相，後、別配經。四因者，次前時後佛，為於如是惡時之中顯有四因，一、久修三學行，二、遇佛集勝因，三、為佛所攝受，四、雖無三學、集因、攝受，由與福德果報相應，故能生信，即是彼人，於彼無法障，故福會生信。惡世由具四因，故能如是，於實相法中能生實相。天親論意，由未來世有菩薩者內具三學之德，即此菩薩外遇良緣，於諸佛所種三種因，當知是人能生實相，故頌說言，「於彼惡世時，菩薩三德備，不空以有實」，即此菩薩，佛悉知見，有持戒、修福德，取生福德，由有智慧，佛悉知見，無人、法執各四八過。

Above, the existence of the time was explained; below, the existence of causes is explained, as well as the explanation that true notions should be generated because of this. The text is further divided into two: first, clarifying that true notions are generated due to the existence of four causes; second, specifically correlating them with the sutra. As for the four causes: following the previous explanation of the time, the Buddha, in order to reveal that there are four causes within such an evil time, [states]: first, having long cultivated the practice of the three trainings; second, encountering buddhas and accumulating superior causes; third, being embraced by the buddhas; fourth, although lacking the three trainings, accumulated causes, and embracing, due to being associated with the karmic fruition of merit, being able to generate faith—that is, that person has no obstruction of phenomena with respect to it, so through the conjunction with merit they generate faith. In an evil period, because of possessing these four causes, they can be like this, able to generate true notions regarding the dharma of true reality. The meaning of Vasubandhu's treatise is: because in the future period there are bodhisattvas who internally possess the virtues of the three trainings, and these same bodhisattvas externally encounter good conditions and plant three kinds of causes in the presence of the buddhas, one should know that such persons are able to generate true notions. Therefore, the verse says: / In that evil age, / The bodhisattva is complete in the three virtues, / Not empty, because there is reality. / It is these bodhisattvas that the Buddha completely knows and sees: possessing upholding of the precepts, cultivating merit, and acquiring the birth of merit; and because of possessing wisdom, the Buddha completely knows and sees that they are free from the grasping at persons and phenomena, each with its four and eight faults.