金光明經文句記 4.121

4.121

初、明識遍諸根。追緣過去，預念未來。馳騁，猶奔走也。「如人」下，舉例也。端坐一室而心思天下。愛染塵緣，名曰坐馳。自非妙空，莫息馳想。「以愚」下，釋六賊所害也。如《大經》者，〈德王品〉云「譬如有王，以四毒蛇盛之一篋，令人瞻養。若令一蛇生瞋恚，我當準法戮之都市。其人怖畏，捨篋逃走。王時復遣五旃陀羅拔刀隨後。一人藏刀，詐為親善。其人不信，投一聚落欲自隱匿。既入聚中，不見人物，即便坐地。聞空中聲云：『今夜當有六大賊來。』其人恐怖，復捨而去。路值一河，其水漂急，即取草木為筏，截流而去。既達彼岸，安隱無患。菩薩亦爾，聞《涅槃經》，觀身如篋，四大如蛇，五旃陀羅即是五陰，詐親即貪愛，空聚即六入，六賊即外六塵，河即煩惱，筏即道品，到於常樂涅槃彼岸。」

First, explaining that consciousness pervades the various faculties. It reaches back to take the past as its object, and anticipates the future. "Galloping" (chicheng) means running wildly. Below the words "like a person," giving an analogy. Sitting upright in a single room while the mind thinks of the entire world. Being attached to sense objects is called "sitting while galloping." Unless one attains the marvelous emptiness, one cannot put an end to these galloping thoughts. Below the words "due to foolishness," explaining being harmed by the six thieves. As in the Great Sūtra, the Chapter on the King of Virtues says: "It is like a king who placed four poisonous snakes in a basket and ordered a man to tend and nurture them. If he caused one snake to become angry, I will execute him in the city market according to the law. That man was terrified, abandoned the basket, and fled. The king then dispatched five caṇḍālas with drawn swords to follow behind him. One of them hid his sword and pretended to be an intimate friend. The man did not trust him and ran to a village seeking to hide himself. Having entered the village, he saw no people or things, and immediately sat on the ground. He heard a voice in the sky saying: 'Tonight six great thieves will arrive.' In terror, the man abandoned it and fled again. Along the way he encountered a river whose water surged swiftly; he took grass and wood to make a raft, and crossed the current. Having reached the other shore, he was safe and free from affliction. The bodhisattva is likewise: hearing the Nirvāṇa Sūtra, he contemplates the body as the basket, the four great elements as the snakes, the five caṇḍālas as the five aggregates, the pretended friend as greedy attachment, the empty village as the six sense bases, the six thieves as the six external sense objects, the river as the afflictions, the raft as the factors of the path, reaching the other shore of eternal bliss in nirvāṇa."