華嚴經內章門等雜孔目章 4.33

4.33

Regarding Samantabhadra: broadly divided, there are two: 1. the Samantabhadra of the Triyāna, and 2. the Samantabhadra of the Ekayāna. Regarding the Samantabhadra of the Triyāna, there are three aspects: first, the person; second, the understanding; third, the practice. First, the person is as in the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra: 'riding an elephant to arrive before the practitioner'—this is the person. Second, the understanding is as in the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra: returning the three to the one, etc., which is the correct understanding oriented toward the Ekayāna. Third, the practice is as explained in the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra's Chapter on the Explanation of Samantabhadra and Chapter on the Clarification of Samantabhadra regarding Samantabhadra's practice. Second, the Samantabhadra of the Ekayāna also has three aspects: first, the person, which is the forty-fifth spiritual friend, Samantabhadra. Second, the understanding, which is the sixty gates of practice in the Chapter on Samantabhadra, each being universal, progressively deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, and equal to the subtle phenomena of Indra, and so forth. Third, the practice, which is the ten kinds of minds of Samantabhadra in the Chapter on Leaving the World. The ten kinds of methods of Samantabhadra's vows and practices can be known from the text. The remaining meanings are as in the separate chapter.