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若七地者，為《大品》所呵。有大鳥身長三百由旬而無兩翅，從天而墮，若死、若死等苦。菩薩亦如是，從初一向專修於空，至于六地，是為三空身肥，假翅不生。若墮二乘方便道名「死等苦」；若墮初果名之為「死」。若見盡是死等；若無學是為死。是鳥欲還天上，可得去不？墮無學地，欲發菩薩心，永不能得。如人被閹，不能五欲。《華嚴》、《大品》不能治之，唯有《法華》能令無學還生善根，得成佛道，所以稱妙。又闡提有心，猶可作佛；二乘滅智，心不可生。《法華》能治，復稱為妙云云。

As for the seventh stage, it was rebuked by the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra. There is a great bird whose body is three hundred yojanas long, yet it has no wings; falling from the heavens, it experiences either death or the suffering equal to death. The bodhisattva is also like this: from the beginning, he concentrates solely on cultivating emptiness, and reaching the sixth stage, his body becomes fat with the three empties, yet the wings of the provisional do not grow. If he falls onto the expedients of the two vehicles, it is called 'suffering equal to death'; if he falls into the first fruit, it is called 'death'. If views are exhausted, that is equal to death; if he is an aśaikṣa, that is death. If this bird wishes to return to the heavens, could it go or not? Having fallen into the stage of an aśaikṣa, if he wishes to arouse the bodhicitta, he can never attain it. Just as a castrated person is incapable of the five desires. The Avataṃsaka and the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā cannot cure him; only the Lotus Sūtra can cause an aśaikṣa to regenerate good roots and attain the Buddha Way, which is why it is called 'wondrous'. Furthermore, an icchantika has a mind, and so may still become a Buddha; the two vehicles have extinguished cognition, so their minds cannot be generated. That the Lotus Sūtra can cure this is also called wondrous, and so forth.