法界圖記叢髓錄 2.10

2.10

The True Record states: Regarding "if briefly explaining the ten approaches in terms of the distinct teaching of the One Vehicle": the preceding quotation of the treatise stating "conforming to the contemplation of conventional truth, one then enters the ultimate truth" refers to the shared teaching. Now it directly distinguishes the import of the ten rounds; therefore it says "if in terms of the distinct teaching of the One Vehicle," and so on. If one contemplates a single limb of ignorance through the ten rounds, then it is replete with the three worlds, constituting the substance of a single limb of ignorance; thus its faults, without being moved, are precisely phenomena whose nature resides in the Middle Way. As with a single [limb of] ignorance, all up through aging-and-death are also like this. Question: What is contemplated being like this, how is that which contemplates? Answer: That which contemplates is also like this. The first—having parts and succession in conditioned arising—fully gathers the remaining nine, and the remaining nine are also like this. However, although each gathers the remaining nine, the first contemplates the succession of parts, the second contemplates the ten kinds of nature-manifesting minds, up through the eighth being conditioned arising, the ninth being pratītyasamutpāda, and the tenth being nature manifestation: in this way the approaches are distinguished. Question: What is the difference between the ten rounds in the Yingluo jing and the ten rounds in the Avataṃsaka Sūtra? Answer: The ten rounds in the Yingluo jing delineate the substance of a single dharmadhātu, whereas the ten rounds in this sūtra delineate the inexhaustible dharmadhātu; therefore it says they differ according to the teachings.