楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 1.651

1.651

河流等五喻剎那壞相，躁動等三乃虛妄識相，故以猿、蠅、風火喻之。然皆無始虛妄習因，墮於生死三有輪轉，故以汲井輪喻之。種種身色等者，此喻幻身。如幻術能使機發，神呪能使像起。《入楞伽》云：「譬如死屍，呪力故行，亦如木人，因機運動。」善彼相知，即善知如上喻相，是觀人無我妙智也。

The five similes of the river and so on illustrate the characteristic of moment-to-moment decay. The three similes of restlessness and so on are the characteristics of false consciousness, hence illustrated by the ape, the fly, and wind and fire. Yet all are the habitual causes of beginningless falsehood, falling into the wheel of birth and death in the three realms of existence; hence it is compared to a well-sweep wheel. 'Various bodily forms, etc.' illustrates the illusory body. It is like magical arts being able to release a mechanism, or divine incantations being able to raise an image. The Ru Lengqie says: 'Just as a dead corpse moves by the power of a spell, or a wooden figure moves because of a mechanism.' 'Skillful knowledge of those characteristics' means skillfully knowing the characteristics of the similes above; this is the wondrous wisdom that contemplates the selflessness of persons.