大乘起信論廣釋卷第三．四．五 4.46

4.46

[Treatise:] "Furthermore, all Buddha-dharmas [...] can be accomplished." [Commentary:] Next, revealing their differences in terms of conditions. In this there are three parts: the teaching, the analogy, and the application. This is the first part. All Buddha-dharmas, such as faith and realization, if dependent solely on internal causes, might be subject to the objection; however, now relying externally on the perfuming of activity as a condition and internally on perfuming as a cause, they can only then be accomplished. Therefore, faith, realization, and so forth are not simultaneous. Because of this, the two kinds of perfuming were distinguished above.