釋門歸敬儀 1.66

1.66

The preface says: Someone said: “The capacities and conditions listed above are complete in text and principle; I deeply know that faith is the source of the path and the mother of merit, and wisdom is the cause of supramundane liberation. However, because faculties are dull and the times are degenerate, firm faith is hard to fully possess; with shallow practice and inferior virtue, correct wisdom is easily lost in delusion. How could one not know that the Great Sage established teachings of phenomena and principle? Yet you wish to unify all the capacities, great and small, deluded by the transformations of the five vehicles; abandoning expedients suited to circumstances, you seek awakening in the purport of the Single Path. I am again perplexed and do not comprehend this principle.”