大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 30.2

30.2

第二節。疏「如泥中刺不覺其傷」者，愛欲所覆猶如溺泥，不知其傷。言「如瘡中刺」者，即是肉刺故，《涅槃》中名為息肉故。彼十三經云：「深觀此愛凡有九種：一如債有餘；二如羅剎婦女；三如妙蓮華莖下有毒蛇；四如惡食性，所不便而強食之；五如婬女；六如摩樓迦子；七如瘡中息肉；八如暴風；九如彗星。」初一即聲聞緣覺餘習。二生子便食，後食其夫；愛食善子，後食眾生，令入三惡道。三五欲華下有愛毒蛇，令其命終。四強食患下，墮三惡道。五與愛交通奪其善法，被驅逐墮三惡道。六纏繞凡夫善法令死。七如人久患瘡中生息肉，其人要當勤心療治莫生捨心，若生捨心息肉增長，蟲疽復生，以是因緣即便命終。凡夫愚人五陰瘡痍亦復如是，愛於其中而為息肉，應當勤心治愛息肉。若不治者，命終即墮三惡道中，唯除菩薩，是名瘡中息肉。八暴風能偃山夷嶽，拔樹深根。愛於父母所而生惡心，拔菩提根。九愛之彗星能斷一切善根，令凡夫人孤窮饑饉。今正用瘡中息肉一義耳。

Section Two. Regarding the commentary's "Like a thorn in the mud, one does not notice its wound": being covered by passionate desire is like being submerged in mud, so that one is unaware of its injury. As for "like a thorn in a sore": this is a thorn of flesh, which is why the Nirvāṇa [Sūtra] calls it a polyp. That sūtra's thirteenth fascicle says: "Contemplating this desire deeply, there are in general nine kinds: first, like remaining debt; second, like a rākṣasa woman; third, like a venomous snake beneath the stem of a wondrous lotus; fourth, like an aversion to a bad food, which is forced upon oneself though unsuitable; fifth, like a courtesan; sixth, like a mālukā seed; seventh, like a polyp in a sore; eighth, like a violent gale; ninth, like a comet." The first is the residual habit-energy of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas. The second eats its child upon giving birth and later eats its husband; desire consumes the good child and later consumes sentient beings, causing them to fall into the three bad destinations. The third is the venomous snake of desire beneath the flower of the five desires, causing one's life to end. The fourth is falling into the three bad destinations under the affliction of forced eating. The fifth is intercourse with desire, which plunders one's wholesome dharmas, causing one to be cast out and fall into the three bad destinations. The sixth entangles ordinary beings' wholesome dharmas, causing them to perish. The seventh is like a person with a chronic sore in which a polyp grows: that person must diligently treat it and not give rise to neglect; if they give rise to neglect, the polyp grows larger and maggots appear, so that because of these causes and conditions they immediately die. The sores of the five aggregates of ordinary fools are also like this: desire is the polyp within them, and one should diligently treat the polyp of desire. If one does not treat it, upon death one will fall into the three bad destinations; only bodhisattvas are excepted. This is called the polyp in a sore. The eighth is a violent gale, which can topple mountains and level peaks, uprooting trees with deep roots. When desire gives rise to an evil mind toward one's parents, it uproots the root of bodhi. The ninth is the comet of desire, which can sever all wholesome roots, rendering ordinary persons destitute and starving. Here, the text specifically employs the single meaning of the polyp in a sore.