天台八教大意 1.40

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此等五品並外凡位，假名五品。既轉明靜，豁入聞慧，通達無滯，深信難動，即入十信，六根清淨內凡位也。見思之惑任運先除，如冶鐵作器，麁垢先盡。故《仁王般若》云：「十善菩薩發大心，長別三界苦輪海。」與三藏通教佛果位齊，與別教十迴向齊也。信名雖同別教，人之與行深淺永殊，住、行、向、地亦復如是。圓賢位竟。

These five grades are all stages of external ordinary beings, provisionally named the five grades. Once becoming increasingly luminous and tranquil, one suddenly penetrates hearing-wisdom, thoroughly comprehending without obstruction, with deep faith hard to shake; one then enters the ten faiths, the internal ordinary stage of the purification of the six sense faculties. The afflictions of views and deliberations are naturally eliminated first, just as in smelting iron to make a vessel, the coarse dross is exhausted first. Therefore the Benevolent King Prajñā says: 'A bodhisattva of the ten goods arouses the great mind, parting forever from the ocean of suffering's wheel in the three realms.' This equals the buddha fruit stage of the Tripiṭaka and shared teachings, and equals the ten dedications of the distinct teaching. Although the name of faith is the same as in the distinct teaching, the persons and practices are ever so different in depth; the abodes, practices, dedications, and stages are also like this. The stages of the perfect worthies conclude.