華嚴一乘教義分齊章 2.11

2.11

Question: "Furthermore, by what principle is it known that gotra reaches the stage of competence?" Answer: "Because the treatise states that gotra necessarily possesses both nature and practice. Since practice already exists, one must have already cultivated practice. If one has already cultivated practice, one must have reached competence. If one did not cultivate this repeated practice in the intermediate interval from an ordinary foolish person up to competence, in what other stage would one cultivate it? For in the foolish stage one has not yet cultivated practice, whereas after attaining the stage, one possesses the second abode. Therefore, one should know that from the foolish stage, where one has not yet cultivated repeated practice, up to that competence, repeated practice is only then perfected; hence, nature and practice blend harmoniously to constitute gotra."