金光明經文句記 2.48

2.48

First, being called observance in the lesser [vehicle]. Knowing suffering and eradicating origination is like an enemy or a snake; cultivating the path and realizing cessation is like a relative or a jewel. Because they merely regulate themselves, they proceed straight ahead; lacking compassionate salvation, they do not turn back. The four directions and four intermediate points refer to the winds of the eight directions, which symbolize the four contrary and four accordant conditions of humans and devas—namely, gain and loss, defame and praise, praise and ridicule, suffering and pleasure. Mount Sumeru symbolizes the mind of the two vehicles.