法華義疏 7.153

7.153

「更著麁弊垢膩之衣」者，第二、垂應身也。然二乘所見具有八相成道，今文略舉凡聖二事，即「更著麁弊垢膩之衣」，即父母生身，同物有大患也。「塵土坌身」，示同心有煩惱也。如納妃生子為貪使，六年苦行為癡使，罵五人為嗔使，亦有三毒，如塵土坌身也。「右手執持除糞之器」，上二句示凡方便，從兜率天下竟道樹之前事等也。今示聖方便，即樹王成道及趣鹿苑轉法輪事也。又前示凡方便以聖同凡，今示聖方便令凡同聖。右手執作之便，真智有除結之能，手執器故除糞，智會理故斷惑。「狀有所畏」者，釋斷結之意也。畏糞污身是故除糞，恐惑染心所以斷惑，如三毒是三衰因，故出城四門即知貪欲致老、瞋恚致病、愚癡致死，畏三毒能生三衰，是故斷惑。

'And put on coarse, ragged, and filthy clothes' is the second, manifesting the response body. Now, what the two vehicles see possesses the complete eight aspects of attaining awakening; the present text briefly adduces the two matters of the ordinary and the noble. 'And put on coarse, ragged, and filthy clothes' is the physical body born of parents, sharing with [sentient] beings the great affliction [of mortality]. 'His body smeared with dust and dirt' shows that in heart he similarly has afflictions. For example, taking a consort and fathering a child represents the fetter of greed; six years of austerities represents the fetter of delusion; reviling the five men represents the fetter of anger—he also had the three poisons, like having his body smeared with dust and dirt. 'Holding in his right hand an implement for removing dung': the above two lines show the ordinary expedient means, things from descending from the Tuṣita Heaven down to before [approaching] the Bodhi tree. Now it shows the noble expedient means, namely attaining awakening beneath the king of trees and proceeding to the Deer Park to turn the wheel of the Dharma. Furthermore, previously he showed the ordinary expedient means in order to assimilate the noble to the ordinary; now he shows the noble expedient means in order to lead the ordinary to assimilate to the noble. The right hand holding it is convenience of working: real wisdom has the capability to eliminate fetters. Because his hand holds the implement, he removes dung; because wisdom tallies with principle, he cuts off delusions. 'With a fearful appearance' explains the intention of cutting off fetters. Fearing that dung will soil the body, he therefore removes dung; dreading that delusions will defile the mind, he therefore cuts off delusions. Just as the three poisons are the causes of the three declines, so upon going out of the four gates of the city he realized that greed causes old age, anger causes sickness, and delusion causes death. Fearing that the three poisons can produce the three declines, he therefore cuts off delusions.