華嚴經旨歸 1.29

1.29

Question: "According to what is expounded here, the assembly expounding the Avataṃsaka never has an end; how could this single text of sūtra teaching exist?" Answer: "For the sake of inferior sentient beings, from within the inexhaustible expounding, this [text] was briefly taken, compiled, and disseminated; therefore, there is this single work, causing their seeing and hearing to serve as an expedient means to introduce them into the boundless, just as looking through a window aperture one sees boundless empty space. One should know that the principle here is also like this: by contemplating this single work, one sees the boundless ocean of Dharma. Furthermore, this single work is precisely the teaching of boundless oceans of kalpas, because the compiled general text has no boundary, and one expounding is all expoundings."