止觀輔行傳弘決 1.3

1.3

(The teaching that aids practice has a lineage; having faith in the teaching, one is capable of supporting practice. The practice that reveals the teaching accords with principle; testing practice, one can transmit and propagate it. What does practice propagate? Without the various teachings, it cannot be established. What does the teaching support? Without wondrous practice, it cannot be explained. Thus, through the three hearings, teaching and practice are gradually brought into a single track: whether consulting and receiving oral decisions, or scrutinizing the essential decisions on principle, or formulating questions to decide doubts, or drawing on analogues to make decisions, or citing the extensive to decide the concise, or gathering the extensive to decide the correct, or deciding the stylistic flow of the commentary, or deciding the path of contemplation throughout, or examining the text to judge errors, or basing oneself on the canon to cut off fallacies. Encompassing these manifold purports, I have presumed to make it the opening title, briefly expressing what has been transmitted so as not to abandon prior views.)