釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 4.69

4.69

Next, explaining the fifteen counteractive dhyāna gates is the counteractive siddhānta, because here medicine and illness correspond directly. Next, explaining shifted treatment and combined shifted and unshifted treatment is the individual siddhānta. This precisely follows the variability of people's capacities and conditions, benefiting them through expedient means, and so it is called for the individual. Next, explaining neither counteractive nor shifted is the ultimate truth siddhānta; its meaning is evident. Hence the *Mahāyāna Treatise* says: 'These four siddhāntas subsume the twelve divisions of scripture, the eighty-four thousand dharma-stores, all the Buddha's teachings.' Deducing it in principle, one should know that the meaning of the dhyāna gates is vast and broad, leaving nothing unincluded.