妙法蓮華經玄贊 6.70

6.70

贊曰：此別告也。「毒蛇」等瞋也。「夜叉」惡業也。「鳩槃荼」戒取也。「野干」疑也。「狗」慢也。「鵰鷲」貪愛也。「百足之屬」如是等種種煩惱也。既乏法食，飢渴故生惱，惱急紛披甚可怖畏。「覩其惑相」此是苦難極惡處所，已不可樂，況大火因所感燒之果宅，晝夜煎迫，何可貪哉。或復如是煩惱、虫鬼擾攘，惡相苦已難處，況此乃是損害燒煮。今後世中災難大火不作此解，虫鬼即火，何所差別？難處有二義：一難可安處，《詩》云「莫我遑處」，處，居也、安也。二苦難處所。

Commentary: This separately tells [of the dreadful place]. "Poisonous snakes" and the like are anger. "Yaksas" are evil karma. "Kumbhāṇḍas" are attachment to precepts and practices (śīlavrataparāmarśa). "Jackals" are doubt. "Dogs" are conceit. "Eagles and vultures" are craving and lust. "Centipedes and their kind" are such manifold afflictions. Lacking the food of the Dharma, suffering arises from hunger and thirst; their distress is urgent and they tear each other apart in total disorder, being extremely frightening. "Perceiving the characteristics of their confusion": this is an extremely vile place of hardship and suffering, already unenjoyable—how much more so the house of retribution burned by the cause of the great fire, scorched and pressed night and day; how could one covet it? Alternatively, with such turmoil of afflictions, insects, and ghosts, the evil characteristics and sufferings are already difficult to abide in—how much more so this harming and burning! If the great fire of perils and disasters in present and future lives is not explained like this, then the insects and ghosts would simply be the fire, so what difference would there be? "Difficult to abide in" has two meanings: first, difficult to dwell in safely—the *Classic of Poetry* says, "I have no leisure to dwell (*chù*)"; *chù* means to dwell, to be at peace; second, a place (*chùsuǒ*) of bitterness and hardship.