法界圖記叢髓錄 2.30

2.30

古記云：三生有多重。一約報，則過去見聞，現在解行，未來證入。二約界，則界內見聞，出世得法，出出世證成。又界內通見聞解行，出世得法出出世證成。三約自分勝進，則十信已前見聞，十信解行，十信滿心勝進證入。四約信解增長門，則十信見聞，三賢解行，十地證入。五約比證，則地前見聞，從初地至七地解行，八地以上證入。六約一乘三乘，則四地見聞，五六七地解行，八地證入。七約五乘配門一乘義，則八地見聞，九地解行，第十地證入。八約知識，則文殊為見聞，德雲以去解行，彌勒告云當來見我為證入。又普賢知識為證果海也。

The Ancient Record states: 'The three lifetimes have multiple levels. 1. In terms of retribution: seeing and hearing in the past, understanding and practice in the present, realization and entry in the future. 2. In terms of realms: seeing and hearing within the realm, obtaining the Dharma supramundanely, and realizing completion supra-supramundanely. Alternatively, within the realm pervades seeing, hearing, understanding, and practice; supramundane is obtaining the Dharma; and supra-supramundane is realizing completion. 3. In terms of intrinsic portion and superior progress: seeing and hearing prior to the ten faiths, understanding and practice in the ten faiths, and realization and entry upon the completion of the ten faiths through superior progress. 4. In terms of the gate of increasing faith and understanding: seeing and hearing in the ten faiths, understanding and practice in the three stages of worthiness, and realization and entry in the ten stages (bhūmis). 5. In terms of inferential and actual realization: seeing and hearing before the stages, understanding and practice from the first to the seventh stage, and realization and entry from the eighth stage upward. 6. In terms of the One Vehicle and the three vehicles: seeing and hearing in the fourth stage, understanding and practice in the fifth, sixth, and seventh stages, and realization and entry in the eighth stage. 7. In terms of the One Vehicle meaning of the assigned gates of the five vehicles: seeing and hearing in the eighth stage, understanding and practice in the ninth stage, and realization and entry in the tenth stage. 8. In terms of spiritual friends (kalyāṇamitra): Mañjuśrī is seeing and hearing, Megheśvara onward is understanding and practice, Maitreya's declaration "In the future you shall see me" is realization and entry; further, the spiritual friend Samantabhadra is the ocean of realization-fruit.'