四明尊者教行錄 4.82

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Question 3: Doubt concerning whether insentient grasses and trees attain Buddhahood or not. The *Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra* states: "If the kakuda tree had a mind, I would confer upon it the prophecy of anuttarā bodhi. Because it has no mind, I do not confer a prophecy upon it." The *Treatise on Dharmalakṣaṇa* states: "Tathatā can serve as the support for all dharmas. Although mindless grasses and trees are not what undergoes transformation, they only possess the nature of principle and lack the nature of practice, so they cannot attain Buddhahood," and so forth. How does the Tiantai school today interpret the sūtras and treatises to establish that insentient grasses and trees attain Buddhahood?