摩訶止觀 1.71

1.71

Further citing the treatise's 'five recurring reasons': first, to clarify the various practices of bodhisattvas, the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra was spoken; second, to cause bodhisattvas to increase their mindfulness-of-Buddha samādhi; third, to explain the characteristics of an avaivartika; fourth, to uproot disciples' evil views; fifth, to explain the supreme truth, the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra was spoken. These five recurring reasons are not different from the four conformities and four siddhāntas, and are also identical with the five causes and conditions.