金剛經纂要刊定記 3.48

3.48

The Buddha of original enlightenment corresponds to the transformation Buddha: the five aggregates altogether correspond to the city of Śrāvastī; the transformation body Buddha being in the city of Śrāvastī expresses the Buddha of original enlightenment being within the city of the five aggregates. Since within the city people and things are both present, within the aggregates form and mind are also complete. Awakening to māras and so forth corresponds to being victorious in battle. The Sanskrit māra is translated here as "killer," because it can kill the practitioner's life of wisdom. There are four kinds: first, the heavenly māra, namely the lord of the desire realm; second, the affliction-māra; third, the aggregates-māra; and fourth, the death-māra. Now, speaking of awakening to emptiness is as the Heart Sūtra says: "contemplating the five aggregates as all empty, there is no ignorance... down to no exhaustion of aging and death." Contemplating the five aggregates as empty destroys the aggregates-māra; no exhaustion of ignorance destroys the affliction-māra; down to no aging and death destroys the death-māra. If other supramundane dharmas are already empty, how much more so the heavenly māra!