法華論疏 2.400

2.400

Question: The first two may benefit the great assembly, but how does the last one also benefit them? Answer: If persons of excessive pride remained in the Dharma assembly, they would create causes and conditions obstructing the path for the great assembly so that they could not receive prediction; therefore, it was necessary to cause them to leave the assembly. Furthermore, when the assembly sees those with transgressions leave the assembly, they give rise all the more to the mind that values the Dharma and reveres the person, and they deeply generate the resolve themselves to hear the superior Dharma. Therefore, this also benefits the great assembly. These three meanings explain the passages on the three stops. The first is the stop before the entreaty; the remaining two are the stops after the entreaties.