摩訶止觀 3.144

3.144

Answer: Initially, having completely eliminated the delusions regarding the ultimate and the conventional through the two contemplations of emptiness and the provisional, one first hears of the middle way; one must still cultivate contemplation to destroy avidyā, being able to manifest buddhahood through the eight phases. This buddha is the fruit, which still takes the preceding two contemplations as its cause; hence it is said that the distinctive connects with the shared. Because one does not use this buddha fruit to connect with the causes of three asaṃkhyeyas and one hundred kalpas of cultivating the marks, it does not connect with the Tripiṭaka [teaching]. Because one does not take this fruit to connect with the causes of the ten bhūmis, it does not connect with the distinctive [teaching]. Because one does not take this fruit to connect with severing avidyā at the ten abodes, it does not connect with the perfect [teaching]. It only connects the distinctive with the shared; such is the meaning.