妙法蓮華經玄贊 5.182

5.182

贊曰：諸方災起也。遍於五蘊名周匝，念念同起名俱時，無端而有名欻然，煩惱隨生名火起，令其五蘊成雜染性、不淨苦性、無常我性，五蘊遍壞故名焚燒舍宅。「欻」許音勿反，暴起貌，《玉篇》「欻，忽也」。《蒼頡篇》猝起也。此意說言遍緣五蘊念念無端生起煩惱，煩惱所增、煩惱所縛，故五蘊身成不淨、苦、無常、無我，燒總及別，故言焚燒舍宅。舍言即攝堂閣等盡故。如因舍宅火災得生，如由火災復壞舍宅，兩相因起牙相增盛，即因五蘊生諸煩惱，復因煩惱增長五蘊，兩相因有亦復如是；或遍生老病死，皆有煩惱，故以為喻。

Eulogy: This is disasters arising from all directions. Pervading the five aggregates is called "all around." Arising together in every moment is called "simultaneously." Arising without a cause is called "suddenly." Afflictions arising along with them is called "the fire broke out." Causing the five aggregates to become defiled, impure, suffering, impermanent, and non-self, and universally destroying the five aggregates, is called "burning down the house." "Suddenly" (chuan) has the pronunciation xu-wu in fanqie, the appearance of bursting forth violently. The Yupian says: "Chuan means suddenly." The Cangjie pian says it means erupting abruptly. The meaning here is that universally taking the five aggregates as objects, afflictions arise without cause from thought-moment to thought-moment; intensified by afflictions and bound by afflictions, the body of five aggregates becomes impure, suffering, impermanent, and non-self, burning both the general and the particular; hence it says "burning down the house." The word "house" already subsumes the halls, pavilions, and so forth completely. Just as a fire disaster can arise because of a house, and because of the fire disaster the house is destroyed in turn, mutually causing one another and mutually intensifying, so too based on the five aggregates afflictions arise, and based on afflictions the five aggregates increase; their mutual causation is just like this. Alternatively, birth, old age, sickness, and death are all pervaded by afflictions, and hence this is used as a metaphor.