摩訶止觀 4.4

4.4

若依漸次，即有四種方便。方便各有遠近，如《阿毘曇》明五停心為遠，四善根為近。通、別方便，例可意知。圓教以假名、五品觀行等位，去真猶遙，名遠方便；六根清淨，相似隣真，名近方便。

If based on the gradual, there are four kinds of expedients. Expedients each have the distant and the near. As the Abhidharma explains: the fivefold mind-stopping contemplations are distant, and the four wholesome roots are near. The expedients of the shared and distinctive can be understood by analogy. In the perfect teaching, because the stages of provisional designation, contemplation practice of the five ranks, and so forth, are still far from the true, they are called distant expedients; the purity of the six faculties, which is a semblance bordering on the true, is called a near expedient.