妙法蓮華經玄義 4.49

4.49

The Bodhisattvabhūmi explains that abandoning the five terrors means cultivating the wisdom of non-self so that the conception of a self does not arise; how then could there be clinging to self or clinging to personal requisites? This is freedom from the fear of inability to live. Not seeking or desiring anything from others, but always benefiting all sentient beings, is freedom from the fear of ill repute. Thoughts of self-view and conceptions of self not arising in the mind is freedom from the fear of death. That when this bodily life ends, one is certain to meet with buddhas and bodhisattvas in future lives, is freedom from the fear of the miserable realms. Seeing that none in the world are one's equal, much less superior, is freedom from the fear of assemblies. The Daśabhūmika-sūtra agrees. The Daśabhūmika-bhāṣya explains: 'Among these, the first is based on the body; the second on speech; the third and fourth on the body; and the fifth on the mind.' 'Living' refers to the various requisites used by the body that sustain life; they are called 'subsistence,' and to live is to sustain life. This speaks of the fruit from the standpoint of the cause; bodhisattvas are free of this fear. Furthermore, designations and speech are all related to vocal faults. Protecting one's name not for personal gain and having no wish in the mind for others' respect is called being free of ill repute. The fifth being based on the mind is readily understood. The third and fourth are based on the body: loving good realms and hating evil realms. Having neither love nor hate for the body, one therefore has no fear of the miserable realms; also, having neither love nor hate for the body, one has no fear of death. I personally consider: not fearing greed and desire destroys uncreated origination; not fearing the miserable realms is called destroying uncreated suffering; not fearing assemblies is establishing the uncreated path; being free from the fear of inability to live and the fear of death is seeing the nature and obtaining permanence, which establishes uncreated cessation.