修華嚴奧旨妄盡還源觀 1.55

1.55

Regarding these six contemplation gates explained above, citing one as principal, the other five are companions; there is no before and after, for beginning and end are completely simultaneous. Entering any single gate completely encompasses the entire dharma-realm. This principle is likened to a round pearl pierced with six holes: entering through any single hole, one completely encompasses the entire pearl. This is also like that: unfolded into six gates, entering any single gate completely encompasses the dharma-realm, because in the perfect doctrinal principle the Dharma is naturally so, and because Sudhana fully realized it all in a single lifetime. Expanding and contracting without obstruction, concealing and manifesting simultaneously, the single point cut off from beginning and end, entering and emerging oblivious to interior and exterior. Initial resolve is true awakening, subsuming multiple lifetimes in a kṣaṇa; when the path of the ten faiths is perfected, a single thought encompasses the Buddha-stage. Consequently, bodhisattvas prior to the stages produce doubt regarding phenomena, and five hundred śrāvakas are cut off from profound discernment; fusing and penetrating without obstruction, the one and the many intermingling, its complete realization and correspondence is called the Buddha-stage.