問う、其の義を知らざる人唯南無妙法蓮華経と唱うるに解義の功徳を具するや否や、
Question: If a person simply chants Nam-myoho-renge-kyo with no understanding of its meaning, are the benefits of understanding there by included?
答う小児乳を含むに其の味を知らざれども自然に身を益す、
Answer: When a baby drinks milk, it has nounderstanding of its taste, and yet its body is naturally nourished.
耆婆が妙薬誰か弁えて之を服せん、
Who ever took the wonderful medicines of Jīvaka knowing of what they were compounded?
水心無けれども火を消し火物を焼く、豈覚有らんや。
Water has no intent, and yet it can put out fire. Fire consumes things, and yet how can we say that it does so consciously?
竜樹・天台皆此の意なり、重ねて示す可し。
This is the explanation of both Nāgārjuna and T’ien-t’ai,and I am restating it here.
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