四明十義書 2.193

2.193

應知欲習此宗教觀，須近善知識。一家玄疏博達，三部止觀深明，如講《妙玄》之時，至事法觀處，即須懸取《止觀》觀境之意教授行者，令其即聞即修。能習此者，豈待《止觀》教文專示妙境，方令行人修之？但隨講事法觀門，皆將《止觀》之意成之，令彼聽習之者隨聞一句事法，即能攝歸一念識心修觀顯理。不待行人自尋止觀之文也，不待專講止觀方始修習。

One must know that if one wishes to practice the teachings and contemplations of this school, one must draw close to a good friend who has broad mastery of the mysterious treatises and commentaries of our school and a profound understanding of the three works on Zhiguan. When lecturing on the Miaoxuan, upon reaching the contemplation of phenomenal teachings, he must preliminarily draw upon the meaning of the object of contemplation from the Zhiguan to instruct practitioners, enabling them to cultivate as soon as they hear it. For those able to practice this, how could it require waiting for the doctrinal text of the Zhiguan specifically to indicate the wonderful object before directing practitioners to cultivate it? Rather, wherever he lectures on the phenomenal contemplation gate, he integrates the meaning of the Zhiguan to accomplish it, enabling those who listen and practice, upon hearing a single phrase of phenomenal teaching, to immediately subsume it into a single thought-moment of the consciousness-mind to cultivate contemplation and reveal the principle. It does not depend on practitioners searching through the text of the Zhiguan by themselves, nor does it depend on specifically lecturing on the Zhiguan before beginning cultivation.