妙法蓮華經玄贊 10.341

10.341

贊曰：此四雜災。一刑罰不傷，二非人不害，三撿繫解脫，四怨賊不損。在手曰杻，在脚曰械，即桎梏也。木在項名枷，鐵在項、腰名鎖。「撿」者攝錄。「挍」也察也。「繫」者牢，「閉」拘也縛也。《智度論》云：「如風不入實，如水不上行，虛空不受害，無業亦如是。」如何無罪橫被囚殃？此據現在不作名為無罪，非先不作。火宅頌言「謗經之人，若他返逆、抄劫竊盜，如是等罪橫羅其殃。」由先謗經故知有罪。怨賊不損中有四：一經難處，二勸念名，三依命，四解脫。《首楞嚴經》「佛告堅意：有一藥樹名曰滅除。大軍鬪時有無量人為毒箭中，是時良醫持藥王樹用塗鼓面，於眾人中擊之出聲，無量毒箭一時自拔。」諸佛菩薩住首楞嚴三昧力故，有人稱名憶念之者，無量罪垢自然除滅，如一醍醐能愈眾患。

Commentary: These are the four miscellaneous calamities: first, punishment does not harm; second, non-humans do not harm; third, being bound in fetters is liberated; fourth, enemies and bandits do not injure. What is on the hands is called niu (杻), and what is on the feet is called xie (械), which are fetters and stocks. Wood upon the neck is called jia (枷, cangue); iron upon the neck or waist is called suo (鎖, chains). "Jian" (撿) means to apprehend and arrest. It also means to inspect and investigate. "Xi" (繫) means to imprison; "bi" (閉) means to detain and bind. The *Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa* says: "Just as wind does not enter what is solid, just as water does not flow upward, and just as empty space does not suffer injury, so it is with absence of karma." How could someone without guilt be unjustly subjected to the distress of imprisonment? This is stated based on not having committed anything in the present, which is called blameless, not that one did not commit anything previously. The verses on the burning house say: "A person who slanders this sūtra, if others rebel, pillage, or steal, will unjustly incur distress from such crimes." From their previous slandering of the sūtra, we know they have guilt. Within enemies and bandits not injuring, there are four parts: first, passing through a perilous place; second, exhorting them to be mindful of the name; third, complying with the instruction; fourth, liberation. The *Śūraṅgama-sūtra* states: "The Buddha told Dṛḍhamati: 'There is a medicinal tree named Eradication. When a great army battles, countless people are struck by poisoned arrows. At that time, a skilled physician takes the king of medicinal trees and uses it to smear the drum face, beating it amid the host to make a sound; countless poisoned arrows are all at once spontaneously pulled out.'" Because the buddhas and bodhisattvas abide in the power of the śūraṅgama-samādhi, if someone chants the name and is mindful of it, countless sins and defilements are spontaneously eliminated, just as a single drop of ghee can cure numerous ailments.