註華嚴法界觀門 1.16

1.16

Excluding the dharmadhātu of phenomena, because phenomena do not stand independently, and in the Dharmadhātu school there are no isolated dharmas. If one contemplates them in isolation, they are the realm of phenomenal emotional reckonings, not the realm of contemplative wisdom. If analyzing the gates of meaning, there are four; now, in contrast to the wisdom that can contemplate, there are only three tiers. These three are merely a single path vertically exhausted, becoming progressively mysterious and wondrous, not that there are a second and third separate from the initial dharmadhātu. Since they are not laid out horizontally side by side, they are called three tiers, not three sections.