華嚴一乘成佛妙義 1.28

1.28

Furthermore, relying on the universal and particular meanings of the six characteristics, this is the One Vehicle; relying on the meaning of their separate distribution according to marks, this is the Three Vehicles. This is explained in terms of the division of teaching, wherein the Dharma of the ten stages of the One Vehicle exhausts the three periods of time and is thoroughly ultimate. This is explained based on realization. The Record says: 'To apply the dhāraṇī-dharma of the dependent origination of the six characteristics to these ten stages is precisely the unimpeded and sovereign ten stages, and is therefore the One Vehicle. If one brings forth the ten stages based on the superiority or inferiority of the functional status of the wisdom of dharma-emptiness, that is the Three Vehicles.' What is explained in terms of the division of teaching employs the teaching of the six characteristics. That it is only when phenomena dependently originate that it constitutes the One Vehicle is explained in terms of the division of teaching. In terms of the division of realization, the sovereign exhaustion of the three periods of time pervading the ultimate locus is the stage of realization.