妙法蓮華經玄贊 9.483

9.483

贊曰：四逢緣惑起喻。無佛已後，因惡知識煩惱遂起、迷醉其心，名飲他毒藥宛轉生死之地。《涅槃經》言：「貧窮無救護，　猶如困病人，　無醫隨自心，　食所不應食。　眾生煩惱病，　常為諸見害，　遠離法醫師，　服食邪毒藥。」根熟未熟雖俱起惑，根不熟者惑重退流，根已熟者惑輕脩行。

The Commentary says: The fourth is the parable of delusions arising upon encountering conditions. After the Buddha was no more, afflictions arose through bad spiritual friends, intoxicating their minds; this is called drinking another's poison and rolling and writhing on the ground of birth and death. The Nirvāṇa Sūtra says: / "Poverty-stricken and without rescue or protection, / Just like critically ill patients / With no physician, following their own desires / And consuming what ought not to be consumed; / The disease of sentient beings' afflictions / Is constantly harmed by all false views; / Having distanced themselves from the physician of the Dharma, / They ingest deviant poisonous medicine." / Although both those with mature and immature faculties give rise to delusions, those whose faculties are immature have heavier delusions and regress with the stream, whereas those whose faculties are already mature have lighter delusions and cultivate practice.