法界圖記叢髓錄 2.79

2.79

古記云：雲華尊者曰：有一樓觀，內莊一乘、外嚴三乘。此中有門，名曰覺門，向菩提樹。而諸眾生妄想纏縛以障此門，由如是故不見一乘珍寶莊嚴。是故天親菩薩以六相鑰匙示開此門。而天竺人未解六相，故以其所習悉曇章總持之法而誨示也（已上）。東土之人又不解其悉曇章總持之法，是故雲華尊者以其所習數錢之法而指示也。問：此悉曇章及數錢之喻，於聖教中有耶無耶？答：有之也。謂悉曇之喻、〈十地品〉中說之數法之喻，第四會精進林菩薩頌曰「比如算數法，增一至無量，數法無體性，智惠故差別。」問：此錢之中，何是遍計？何是因緣耶？答：如是十錢，第一第二乃至第十皆有自性故，取一則無一、取二則無二等者，是遍計錢也。因緣錢者，此一錢位具中即故，若無餘九即此一錢亦不得成，是故此一錢即是無盡之一也。

The Ancient Record says: The Venerable of Yunhua said: 'There is a multistoried pavilion whose interior is adorned with the One Vehicle and whose exterior is decorated with the three vehicles. Inside there is a gate named the Gate of Awakening, facing the Bodhi tree. But sentient beings are entangled by false thoughts, which obstruct this gate; because of this, they do not see the precious jewel adornments of the One Vehicle. Therefore, Vasubandhu Bodhisattva used the key of the six characteristics to reveal and open this gate. Yet the people of India did not understand the six characteristics, so he instructed them using the method of the siddham dhāraṇī which they had studied.' (End of quote). The people of the Eastern Land also did not understand the method of the siddham dhāraṇī; therefore, the Venerable of Yunhua instructed them using the method of counting coins which they were accustomed to. Question: Are these analogies of siddham and counting coins found in the sacred teachings or not? Answer: They are indeed present. As for the analogy of siddham, it is spoken in the 'Ten Grounds Chapter'. As for the analogy of the method of counting, the verse spoken by Bodhisattva Vīryasiddhi in the Fourth Assembly states: 'Just as in the method of calculation, / Adding one reaches infinity, / The method of counting has no substantial nature, / Distinct only due to wisdom.' Question: Among these coins, which is the imagined [nature], and which is pratītyasamutpāda? Answer: When the ten coins—the first, the second, up to the tenth—each have their own-nature, so that taking one means there is not one, taking two means there is not two, and so forth: these are the imagined coins. As for the coins of pratītyasamutpāda: because the position of this single coin completely possesses the middle and identical, if there were not the remaining nine, this single coin could not be established; therefore, this single coin is precisely the inexhaustible one.