御注金剛般若波羅蜜經宣演 2.50

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經。須菩提以要言之至無邊功德　演曰。第三讚歎法及修行。初讚歎法勝後讚修行人。初中復二。初正讚後重成。此初也。論云不可思議者。唯自覺故。不可稱者無有等及勝故。此非十地菩薩所思。即法花經唯佛與佛乃能究盡。彼經論云等現難思故。思謂世間尋伺心等法。非彼境名不可思議。今經更加無邊功德。即通兩處為不可思議無邊功德。不可稱量無邊功德。彼論自下釋復成就何業。頌云。

Sūtra: 'Subhūti, to summarize…' up to '…boundless merit.'
Exposition: The third is praising the Dharma and its cultivation. First, praising the excellence of the Dharma; later, praising the person who cultivates it. Within the first, there are again two: first, the direct praise; later, reinforcing it. This is the first. The treatise says: 'inconceivable' means it is only self-realized; 'incomparable' means there is nothing equal or superior to it. This is not what can be conceived by bodhisattvas of the ten bhūmis; as the Lotus Sūtra says: 'Only a Buddha together with a Buddha can exhaustively fathom it.' The commentary on that sūtra says: 'Manifesting equally, it is difficult to fathom.' 'Fathoming' refers to worldly phenomena such as thinking and investigating minds; not being within their sphere is termed 'inconceivable'. Now the sūtra further adds 'boundless merit', which applies to both places: 'inconceivable, boundless merit' and 'incomparable, boundless merit'. Below, that treatise explains 'what actions does one accomplish' in a verse: