法界圖記叢髓錄 1.122

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大記云：何故印文唯有一道者，立在第四重海印起此問也。謂既隨根欲而成屈曲，何故云一道耶？如是問也。如來一音者，〈法界品〉云「我知法界一性，如來一音，一切眾生無不了故（已上）。」問：若一切眾生了一音者，非是各得解也；若各得解者，非是一音無不了也（云云）。若對此難，以惣別二相答也。謂不壞屈曲而能等遍，故是一音；不動等遍而差韵，故能成屈曲。此中能成等遍者，惣相也。音韵差者，別相也。別即惣故，雖眾生各得解，而了一音也；惣即別故，雖是一音，而各解也。

The Great Record states: As for "Why does the inscription of the seal have only a single path?", this question is raised by standing at the fourth fold of the ocean seal. That is: since it forms bends according to faculties and desires, why is it said to be a single path? Such is the question. As for "the Tathāgata's single voice," the Gandavyūha states: "I know the single nature of the dharmadhātu and the single voice of the Tathāgata, which no sentient being fails to comprehend (end of quotation)." Question: If all sentient beings comprehend the single voice, it is not that each obtains an individual understanding; if each obtains an individual understanding, it is not that all comprehend the single voice (and so forth). If confronted with this objection, one answers with the two characteristics of universal and particular. That is: without destroying the bends, it can pervade equally, and thus it is a single voice; without moving from equal pervasion, the tones differ, and thus it can form bends. Here, that which can achieve equal pervasion is the universal characteristic. That the tones and melodies differ is the particular characteristic. Because the particular is identical to the universal, although sentient beings each obtain an individual understanding, they comprehend the single voice; because the universal is identical to the particular, although it is a single voice, each understands individually.