大方廣佛華嚴經疏 46.32

46.32

第五如焰忍。釋中有三：一指法同喻，所喻如前；二「譬如」下別顯喻相；三總以法合。二中，若別開義門，亦具五義：一空地、二陽氣、三氣與空地合而有焰、四焰似水即無水、五令渴鹿謂有。初喻如來藏、二喻無明習氣、三喻習氣熏動心海起於緣生似法、四喻依他無生、五喻凡小執實。若十喻論法，喻各有多義，如彼廣說。其有無等義，如幻應知。經文有二：初喻體空；後「但隨」下喻其相有。三「菩薩」下法合中，初明了法、後「現證」下明成忍行。

Fifth is the mirage-like forbearance (marīcy-upama-kṣānti). In the explanation, there are three parts: first, pointing to phenomena as identical to the simile, where what is illustrated is as before; second, from "Just as" onward distinctly displays the marks of the simile; third, generally correlating them with phenomena. In the second part, if the gates of meaning are separately opened, they also comprise five meanings: first, the empty ground; second, the heat haze; third, the combination of the haze with the empty ground producing the mirage; fourth, the mirage resembling water while there is actually no water; fifth, causing thirsty deer to imagine it exists. The first illustrates the tathāgatagarbha; the second illustrates the residual impressions of ignorance (avidyā-vāsanā); the third illustrates residual impressions perfuming and stirring the ocean of mind to give rise to conditionally produced semblances of phenomena; the fourth illustrates the non-arising of dependent [phenomena]; the fifth illustrates ordinary beings and followers of the small [vehicles] grasping at reality. If one discusses phenomena in terms of the ten similes, each simile has multiple meanings, as expounded at length there. Its meanings of existence and non-existence should be known as with illusion. The sūtra text has two parts: first, illustrating the emptiness of essence; next, from "merely according with" onward illustrates the existence of its marks. Third, in the correlation with phenomena from "A bodhisattva" onward, it first clarifies understanding phenomena, and next, from "manifestly realizing" onward clarifies accomplishing the practice of forbearance.