華嚴五十要問答 1.26

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問：諸教修道所有總別業時節分齊云何？答：依小乘教，諸菩提分總報業，從發心初始次第修行，臨欲成佛十地終心，百劫別修相好業，是實非化。若依三乘，始教是化非實。若依終教及直進菩薩，竝從發心以來一切竝修，十地終後無別百劫修相好業。依一乘教，分與終教相同，既十信已來即成佛即成菩薩行，亦無別時修別相好業。何以故？現十地後修相好業者，為迴聲聞，由聲聞人偏修智分不修福分。今現別修，顯彼信心、無慢敬愛故也。

Question: What are the temporal limits of all the general and particular karmas in the cultivation of the path across the teachings? Answer: According to the Hīnayāna teaching, all the general retribution karmas of the factors of awakening are cultivated successively from the initial arising of the mind [of awakening]; at the verge of becoming a buddha, in the final mind of the tenth ground, one separately cultivates the karma of the marks and signs for one hundred kalpas, which is real and not illusory. According to the triyāna, in the initial teaching it is illusory and not real. According to the final teaching and direct advancement bodhisattvas, all are cultivated together from the arising of the mind onward; after the end of the tenth ground, there is no separate cultivation of the karma of the marks and signs for one hundred kalpas. According to the Ekayāna teaching, in part it is identical to the final teaching: since one achieves buddhahood and accomplishes the bodhisattva practice already from the ten faiths onward, there is also no separate time to cultivate separate karma for the marks and signs. Why is this? The manifestation of cultivating the karma of the marks and signs after the tenth ground is done to convert the śrāvakas, because śrāvakas cultivate the wisdom-portion exclusively and do not cultivate the merit-portion. Now, manifesting separate cultivation is in order to reveal their faithful mind, reverence, and love free from pride.