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論。而實菩薩至阿僧祇劫故　述曰。此實行不殊德也。而實菩薩種姓根等義。一種姓等。皆入菩薩種姓位故。二諸根等。上中下根皆上根故。三發心等。發真心等皆無別故。四所證等。皆證真如根本理故。以一切菩薩等者。後約時釋成。從初正信至於初地。初僧祇劫。初地乃至七地滿心。二僧祇。滿八地乃至十地終心。三僧祇。劫既皆三祇。故無超也。

[Treatise:] Yet in reality this bodhisattva's [spiritual disposition and faculties are equal] ... because of the asaṃkhyeya kalpas. [Commentary:] This is the virtue of the actual practice not being different. "Yet in reality this bodhisattva's spiritual disposition and faculties are equal" has [four] senses: first, their spiritual disposition is equal, because all have entered the stage of the bodhisattva's spiritual disposition; second, their faculties are equal, because superior, middling, and inferior faculties are all the superior faculty; third, their aspiration is equal, because the arousal of the true mind and the like are all without distinction; fourth, that which they realize is equal, because all realize the fundamental principle of tathatā. As for "because all bodhisattvas" and so forth, it is subsequently explained and established in terms of time: from the initial correct faith up to the first bhūmi is the first asaṃkhyeya kalpa; from the first bhūmi up to the fulfilling mind of the seventh bhūmi is the second asaṃkhyeya; from the fulfillment of the eighth bhūmi up to the final mind of the tenth bhūmi is the third asaṃkhyeya. Since the kalpas are all three asaṃkhyeyas, there is in fact no transcending.