法界圖記叢髓錄 1.27

1.27

大記云：二百一十字者，五周因果，除初因果，於後四周簡果取因，於四周因各有五十位，故成二百。其四周中所有果位合四為一，欲現此果同是十佛果，故言一十也。問：何故除初因果耶？答：但是所信，非所成行故。問：何故果位合為一耶？答：因位既有差別，平等詮相別故，果應亦爾。然欲現同是十佛果，故總為一耳。又云：此海印中所現三世間十門十法也。謂下文十錢喻及十普法為二十，二十各論十玄合為二百，并本十玄故云二百一十也。又此印為總，七十三印為別。就別印中，將七十印歷三際印，一際各七十故合為二百一十也。故合二百一十印成一海印三昧總相印也。七言三十句者，前之法喻各十，并本十玄合為三十，此三十句不出經題七字，故以七言造詩也。是故法界之法雖云無盡，不出二百一十字。總此即成三十句，又總此不出七字，又總此不出理智，又總此不出一最清淨法界，是故題云一乘法界圖也。

The Great Record says: "The two hundred and ten characters represent the five cycles of cause and effect: setting aside the initial cause and effect, within the subsequent four cycles the fruitions are excluded and the causes are taken; in the causes of the four cycles there are fifty stages each, thus making two hundred. All the fruition stages within those four cycles are combined into one, wishing to show that this fruition is identically the fruition of the ten Buddhas, hence it is called 'one ten.' Question: Why is the initial cause and effect excluded? Answer: Because it is merely what is believed, not the practice that is accomplished. Question: Why are the fruition stages combined into one? Answer: Since the causal stages have distinctions, because what is explained with equal validity has distinct characteristics, the fruitions should also be like this. However, wishing to show that they are identically the fruition of the ten Buddhas, they are simply grouped into one. It is also said: these are the ten gates and ten dharmas of the three realms manifested within the ocean seal. That is, the ten-coin simile and the ten universal dharmas mentioned below make twenty; each of the twenty discusses the ten mysteries, combining to make two hundred; together with the original ten mysteries, it is therefore called two hundred and ten. Furthermore, this seal is the universal, and the seventy-three seals are the particulars. In terms of the particular seals, taking the seventy seals and applying them across the seals of the three times, each time has seventy, thus combining to make two hundred and ten. Therefore, combining the two hundred and ten seals forms the single universal characteristic seal of the ocean seal samādhi. Regarding the thirty lines of seven characters: the preceding ten dharmas and ten similes, together with the original ten mysteries, combine to make thirty; these thirty lines do not go beyond the seven characters of the sutra's title, so the poem was composed in seven-character lines. Therefore, although the phenomena of the dharmadhātu are said to be inexhaustible, they do not go beyond the two hundred and ten characters. Synthesizing these yields thirty lines; synthesizing these again, they do not go beyond the seven characters; synthesizing these again, they do not go beyond principle and wisdom; synthesizing these again, they do not go beyond the single, most pure dharmadhātu. For this reason, it is titled the Dharmadhātu Diagram of the One Vehicle."