天台八教大意 1.45

1.45

Hence we know that when those of medium or inferior capacity cultivate contemplation, all ten dharmas are necessary. Those of superior capacity realise the object as encompassing them all, or [rely upon] one, two, or three indeterminately, and internal or external acts and experiences are invariably so. The great carriage is immeasurable; could its description have been set forth in vain? Matching the Dharma to the metaphor originated within our own tradition; as that to which the origin and traces return, the perfect principle is not two. Without differentiating yet differentiated, it increases in clarity rank by rank; this is extensively [treated] in other texts and cannot be fully presented here. Judging the doctrines according to the texts, whether the four [teachings] or the eight [teachings], the Way is present before one's very eyes.