華嚴五十要問答 1.28

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問：菩薩修道成佛不成佛差別云何？答：依小乘教，但修菩提分業，除有退者，皆悉成佛，無不成佛。依三乘教，實行修道皆悉成佛。若對異機現不成佛，若約正理無成不成。依一乘教，皆對前機，若須成佛則數數成、皆新斷結成佛，亦不住學地成佛。若對不成機，則常不成，由如大海於諸位中無有溢滿，即楞伽經菩薩一闡提是。若對異病機，則無成不成。若對普賢，則亦成亦不成也。

Question: What is the distinction between a bodhisattva cultivating the path becoming a buddha and not becoming a buddha? Answer: According to the Hīnayāna teaching, they merely cultivate the karma of the factors of awakening, and except for those who regress, all become buddhas; there are none who do not become buddhas. According to the triyāna teaching, those who cultivate the path with real practice all become buddhas. If responding to faculties of a different sort, they manifest non-attainment of buddhahood; if viewed according to correct principle, there is neither becoming nor not becoming [a buddha]. According to the Ekayāna teaching, all are addressed to the aforementioned faculties: if it is necessary to become a buddha, they repeatedly become [a buddha], all becoming buddhas through newly severed fetters, and they also do not abide in the stage of learning to become buddhas. If addressed to faculties that do not become [buddhas], they perpetually do not become [buddhas]—just as the great ocean is never filled overflowing across all its places—which is precisely the bodhisattva-icchantika in the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra. If addressed to faculties with different afflictions, then there is neither becoming nor not becoming. If addressed to Samantabhadra, then it is both becoming and not becoming.