妙法蓮華經玄贊 4.144

4.144

贊曰：下有六頌示不同相，中分二：初一頌標無善有惡故不同，後五頌釋有惡無善故不同。此初也。未曾脩善本，即是出世方便善根，無始雖起多分暗劣，唯生得善無無漏因，由著五境堅執不捨，以此為緣癡便發業、愛便潤生。故諸生死生老死支一切苦惱苦樹增長，由無出世方便善本，有癡愛二以為其因，著五欲境不肯捨故，發業無明多由迷內發，潤生貪愛多緣五欲生，今據欲界無明發業通言著欲，說重處故。

The Eulogy says: The following six verses demonstrate the characteristics of being different, divided into two: first, one verse indicates that they are different because they lack good and possess evil; next, five verses explain that they are different because they possess evil and lack good. This is the first. 'Having never cultivated the root of goodness' refers to the supramundane expedient wholesome roots. Although having arisen from beginningless time, they are mostly dark and inferior; they have only innate goodness and lack uncorrupted causes. Because they cling to the five sensory objects and firmly grasp them without abandoning them, taking this as a condition, delusion generates karma and craving moistens rebirth. Therefore, all the branches of saṃsāra—birth, old age, and death—and all distresses, the tree of suffering, increase and grow. Because they lack supramundane expedient wholesome roots and have both delusion and craving as their cause, clinging to the objects of the five desires and refusing to abandon them, the ignorance that generates karma mostly arises from being deluded internally, and the craving that moistens rebirth mostly arises in connection with the five desires. Here, based on the ignorance of the desire realm generating karma, it speaks generally of clinging to desires, stating the most prominent aspect.