四明尊者教行錄 3.52

3.52

答：此由《大品》十地兼含衍門三教之義耳。如初地菩薩名為伏忍，二三兩地名柔順忍，四地已去名無生忍，乃至游戲神通淨佛國土等皆通三教也。故《輔行》中釋十地為如佛，云若被接者至此，既破一品無明，亦能八相，故云如佛。豈非十地名義通三教耶？若爾，何故《輔行》明被接云，謂用前教有始無終，已用七八不至九十。即用後教有終無始，但用向地不須住行，中續接之故得名接。此豈非被接之後依後教位次耶？答：若據經文，則無別位。而大師得經深旨，自以十地通於三教，故荊溪具約兩教位次引而伸之，欲令被接之義區以別矣。引廣決略，乃作者之意焉。

Answer: This is because the ten stages in the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā contain the meanings of the three teachings of the Mahāyāna. For instance, the first stage bodhisattva is called patient suppression; the second and third stages are called compliant patience; from the fourth stage onward is called the patient cognition of non-arising, up to sporting with spiritual penetrations and purifying the Buddha land—all of these apply to the three teachings. Therefore, the Fuxing, in interpreting the tenth stage as "like a Buddha," says that if a practitioner who is received and grafted arrives here, having broken one grade of ignorance, they can also [manifest] the eight phases, hence they are called "like a Buddha." Is this not proof that the name and meaning of the ten stages apply across the three teachings? If so, why does the Fuxing, in explaining being received and grafted, say: "It means using the former teaching having a beginning but no end; having used the seventh and eighth stages, one does not reach the ninth and tenth. Then one uses the latter teaching having an end but no beginning, merely using the stages of direction and bhūmi without needing the abodes and practices; being joined and grafted in the middle, it gets the name of being grafted"? Does this not mean that after being received and grafted, one relies on the stages of the latter teaching? Answer: If judged by the scripture's text, there are no separate stages. But the Great Master grasped the profound import of the sūtra, and took the ten stages as applying across the three teachings; therefore, Jingxi elaborated upon it fully in terms of the stages of the two teachings, intending to differentiate the meaning of being received and grafted. To expand upon the text to resolve what was concise was indeed the author's intention.