大乘起信論別記 1.186

1.186

Third, the extensive explanation of the two meanings of vehicle within the section establishing the meaning; and these two meanings explain the greatness of function. Because they have already been implicitly revealed in the text, there is no need for a separate explanation. When it says: "All Buddhas originally in the causal stage generated great compassion and cultivated the practices of the perfections..." and so on at length, this is the first meaning of vehicle. As stated in the establishment above: "Because all Buddhas originally rode upon it." Again, it states that bodhisattvas, having generated the aspiration, profoundly see the Buddha and the characteristics of their diverse practices and realizations; this is the second meaning of vehicle. Above it said: "Because all bodhisattvas ride upon this dharma to reach the Buddha stage."