The Sūtra of Immeasurable Meanings clarifies that immeasurable [meanings] emerge from the one [Dharma].⁵¹¹ This means that the [real meaning of the first] three types of [understanding] the four truths is exposed and emerges from the [understanding of the four truths as] spontaneous.

The Lotus Sūtra clarifies that the immeasurable enters the one.⁵¹² This means that the [first] three types of [understanding] the four truths meet and ultimately merge with the one type of [understanding] the four truths [as spontaneous].

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The Wu liang i ching, says, “Good sons! There is one doctrine [”dharma-gate”] which leads bodhisattvas to attain Anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi quickly. … This one is called ‘immeasurable.’ … As natural desires are immeasurable, the preaching of the dharma is immeasurable. The preaching of the dharma is immeasurable so its meanings are immeasurable. Immeasurable meanings emerge from the one dharma ” See also Katō, The Threefold Lotus Sutra, 12. return

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This is not a quote from the Lotus Sūtra but speaks of the general teaching of the Lotus Sūtra that all are included in the one Buddha-vehicle. return