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眾生若立，一切惑法因果立，一切所化立；機、教若立，一切解行因果立，一切能化立。是為無生門一立一切立。故《大品》云：「若聞阿字門，則解一切義。」《佛藏》云：「一吹一切悉成。」此之謂也。如《地持》四種成熟，謂：聲聞種性、緣覺種性、佛種性、菩薩種性。無此四性，以善趣熟之。佛種性即此圓機，菩薩種性即此別機。彼文云：「菩薩種子，有佛、無佛，堪能次第斷煩惱障及智障。」豈非別機？聲聞種性當開之：別異善根，即三藏機；退大取小種性，即通機。彼四成熟，即此四種機緣義也。

If sentient beings are established, all the causes and fruits of the dharmas of delusion are established, and all who are to be transformed are established. If faculties and teachings are established, all the causes and fruits of understanding and practice are established, and all who can transform are established. This is how, in the gate of nonproduction, when one is established, all are established. Therefore the Pañcaviṃśati says: 'If one hears the gate of the syllable A, one understands all meanings.' The Scripture of the Buddha Treasury says: 'With a single blow, all is fully accomplished.' This is what it means. It is like the four maturities in the Bodhisattvabhūmi (*Bodhisattvadhāraka-śāstra): the śrāvaka gotra, the pratyekabuddha gotra, the buddha gotra, and the bodhisattva gotra; lacking these four natures, they are matured through the good destinies. The buddha gotra is this perfect faculty, and the bodhisattva gotra is this distinctive faculty. That text says: 'As for the bodhisattva seed, whether there is a buddha or no buddha, it is capable of sequentially cutting off the affliction-obstruction and the knowledge-obstruction.' How could this not be the distinctive faculty? The śrāvaka gotra should be unpacked: those with separate and different good roots are the Tripiṭaka faculties; the gotra of those who regress from the Mahāyāna to take up the Hīnayāna is the shared faculty. Those four maturities are precisely the meaning of these four faculties and conditions.