觀音義疏 1.43

1.43

次明煩惱火，若聲聞人厭惡生死，見三界因果猶如火宅，四倒結業，煙炎俱起，輪轉墮落，為火所燒，生死蔓延，晝夜不息，勤求方便，競共推排，爭出火宅，稱觀世音，機成感應，乘於羊車，速出火宅，入有餘、無餘涅槃，即得解脫也。次明支佛、次明六度行、次明通教、次明別教、次明圓教、次明變易土鈍根人、次明變易土利根人，凡有九番行人，修道之時並為五住煩惱惑火之所燒害，各修方便，方便未成，火難恒逼，稱觀世音，方便即成，便得解脫，一一當其法門細作機感之義。

Next, explaining the fire of affliction: when śrāvakas detest birth and death, they view the causes and effects of the three realms as like a burning house; with the four inversions and karmic fetters, smoke and flames rise together, and as they revolve and fall, burned by fire, birth and death spread on ceaselessly day and night. Diligently seeking skillful means, vying and jostling with one another to escape the burning house, they recite [the name of] Avalokiteśvara. When the spiritual capacity matures, resonance occurs; mounting the goat-drawn cart, they swiftly exit the burning house and enter nirvāṇa with remainder or without remainder, thereby attaining liberation. Next, this is explained for pratyekabuddhas; next, for practitioners of the six perfections; next, for the Shared teaching; next, for the Separate teaching; next, for the Perfect teaching; next, for people of dull faculties in the land of transformational [birth and death]; and next, for people of sharp faculties in the land of transformational [birth and death]. In all, there are nine turns of practitioners: when cultivating the path, they are all burned and harmed by the fire of delusion and affliction of the five entrenchments; each cultivates skillful means, but before their skillful means are perfected, the peril of fire constantly presses upon them; reciting [the name of] Avalokiteśvara, their skillful means are immediately perfected and they thereupon attain liberation. One should elaborate the meaning of spiritual capacity and resonance in detail according to each respective dharma gate.