摩訶止觀 8.45

8.45

The first four propositions are: not severing defilements and not emerging from nirvāṇa; not severing defilements and emerging from nirvāṇa; not severing defilements, and both emerging and not emerging; not severing defilements, and neither emerging nor not emerging. The first refers to the two vehicles of embodying dharmas; the second refers to bodhisattvas who embody dharmas and emerge into the provisional; the third refers to bodhisattvas who embody dharmas and are both in emptiness and the provisional; the fourth refers to the true principle of embodying dharmas.