四明尊者教行錄 4.60

4.60

Twenty-first Question: The third fascicle of the Zhiguan says regarding the Distinct [Teaching] connecting the Common [Teaching] person: 'Initially cultivating the two contemplations of emptiness and provisionality, exhausts and breaks the delusions of ultimate and conventional [truths], and only then does he hear the middle way. He must still cultivate contemplation to break ignorance, and be able to manifest the eight phases of becoming a Buddha.' This means ascending to the ten stages in the very body. A recent doubter says: 'Even for a person of the Distinct Teaching, there is no one who ascends to the ten stages in a physical body; how could someone coming from an inferior teaching be able to transcend and ascend?'