止觀輔行傳弘決 1.85

1.85

From "However, the four compliances and the four siddhāntas" onwards, he specifically synthesizes and integrates them. Here he temporarily re-adduces the general designations. From "Now explaining it" onwards, he properly synthesizes the general designations. Because of great compassion, according with the capacities of beings receives the name of the four compliances; because of pity, bestowing dharma medicines universally receives the designation of siddhāntas. Great compassion and pity are one substance with different names. Just as a single object is not different: when on the left, one calls the object "right"; when on the right, one calls the object "left." "Conditions" refers to the five summaries. The two characters "cause" and "condition" are established interchangeably: if sentient beings arouse their aspiration with vigor, although relying on the response of the sage, sentient beings are taken as the cause and the sage as the condition; if the wholesome roots of sentient beings are weak and the sage presses and urges them, the sage's response is taken as the cause and sentient beings as the condition. Direct generation is the cause, and indirect assistance is the condition; hence the designations are established variably according to strength and weakness. From "It should be known" onwards, he concludes. The names and meanings of the four compliances, four siddhāntas, and five conditions correspond with one another; hence they must be synthesized. "Words" refers to the verbal teaching, which is the difference in names; "flavor" refers to the flavor of meaning, which is the identity in meaning. Names conforming to meanings is called "corresponding" (xiangfu). Fu means to match. In the Book of Han, when enfeoffing meritorious ministers, bamboo six inches long was split and brought together as a tally (fu); hence the character takes the bamboo radical. That with the grass radical is the name of the guimu herb, not what is used here.