妙法蓮華經玄贊 6.7

6.7

贊曰：「牆壁圮坼」者，想蘊無常。「圮」音父美反，毀也覆也。「坼」音恥格反，裂也。《玉篇》「分也」。已上七句，合明三界五蘊無常，隨應有處皆如是故。已下五句別明色身無常等義，三句無常、一句無我、一句不淨，由此三義是故成空。「泥塗」喻肉。《切韻》「塗，鞔覆也」。「阤」者隤也毀落也。「阤」音池爾反。《說文》「奮衣作褫」。《切韻》「山崩曰陊」。《玉篇》「折薪隨其木理作阤」。或有為「褫」，不知所從。今應為「阤」。《廣雅》「[(毤-八+ㄙ)-毛+ㄆ]也」。《方言》「壞也」。《說文》「山崩曰阤」。或為「陊」。「覆苫」喻皮膚聊亂而且墜。《爾雅》「白蓋謂之苫」。編白蓋為之䨱屋曰苫。「椽梠」者，「梠」音力舉反，桷端木，今謂雀梠。「差」音楚宜、楚佳二反。「脫」音徒活反，又吐活反。喻骨節、筋脈相連無常。椽既差矣，骨節無常；雀梠亦脫，筋脈無常。《瑜伽》第十九引經頌言「有城骨為墉，　筋肉而塗飾，　其中有貪恚，　慢䨱所任持。」

The Commentary says: 'The walls cracked and broken': the impermanence of the perception aggregate. Pi is pronounced with the fanqie fu-mei; it means ruined and overturned. Che is pronounced with the fanqie chi-ge; it means split. The Yupian says: 'divided'. The above seven lines together explain the impermanence of the five aggregates in the triple world, for wherever they exist appropriately, they are all like this. The five lines below specifically explain the meanings of impermanence and so forth of the physical body: three lines on impermanence, one line on non-self, and one line on impurity; because of these three meanings, it consequently constitutes emptiness. 'Plaster' is a metaphor for flesh. The Qieyun says: 'Tu means smeared and covering.' Yi means collapsed, ruined, and dropped. Yi is pronounced with the fanqie chi-er. The Shuowen says: 'Shaking clothes is written as chi.' The Qieyun says: 'A collapsing mountain is called tuo.' The Yupian says: 'Splitting firewood along its grain is written as yi.' Some texts have chi, not knowing its source; now it should be yi. The Guangya says: 'It means peeling.' The Fangyan says: 'It means ruined.' The Shuowen says: 'A collapsing mountain is called yi.' Some have tuo. 'Thatch covering' is a metaphor for skin being loose, disordered, and falling down. The Erya says: 'White thatch covering is called shan.' Weaving white reed mats to cover a roof is called shan. 'Rafters and eaves': lü is pronounced with the fanqie li-ju, meaning the edge of rafters, now called eaves-brackets. Cha is pronounced with the two fanqie chu-yi and chu-jia. Tuo is pronounced with the fanqie tu-huo, also tu-huo. It is a metaphor for the impermanence of the joints, tendons, and vessels connected together. When rafters are displaced, the joints are impermanent; when eaves-brackets detach, the tendons and vessels are impermanent. Fascicle 19 of the Yogācārabhūmi cites a sūtra verse: 'There is a city with bones for ramparts, / smeared and adorned with sinews and flesh, / within which dwell greed and wrath, / sustained by conceit and hypocrisy.'