四明尊者教行錄 7.29

7.29

云大教者，此非教門體析偏圓等義對分大小，茲約內外二宗以論之。如《釋籤》解章安大法東漸云：通指佛教為大法是也。《文選》曰：道有隆夷。注云：隆，盛也。夷，平也。盛平亦高下之義耳。《周易》神而明之，存乎其人。諸祖者，荊溪已下諸師也。《太玄經》曰：遠而有黑色者謂之玄。今以台宗幽遠微密之旨，為玄化矣。幾音機，《文選》作其音並近也。

When it speaks of the 'Great Teaching', this is not dividing the great from the small by contrasting the doctrines of bodily analysis, partial, or perfect within the doctrinal approaches; here it is discussed in terms of the internal and external traditions. As the Shiqian explains Zhang'an's phrase 'the eastward transmission of the Great Dharma' by saying that it refers generally to the Buddhist teaching as the Great Dharma, this is it. The Wenxuan says: 'The Dao has its rise and decline.' The commentary says: 'Long means flourishing. Yi means level.' Flourishing and level also have the sense of high and low. The Zhouyi says: 'To render it divine and illuminate it depends upon the person.' 'The patriarchs' refers to the various masters from Jingxi onward. The Taixuan jing says: 'What is distant and dark is called xuan.' Now, using the profound, distant, subtle, and esoteric purport of the Tiantai school, it is called the 'abstruse transformation'. The character 幾 is pronounced ji; the Wenxuan uses 其, and their pronunciations are close.