分別功德論 2.26

2.26

念身者，觀身三十六物惡露不淨，諦念不亂，亦得涅槃。何以知之？昔有比丘作阿練若，常行乞食，於江水邊食，食訖澡鉢。時上流岸邊塚間有新死女人，風吹頭髮忽然墮鉢中。比丘手執此髮，諦視之，甚妙好，心口獨語：「若是馬尾，此復太細。若是男子髮，復太軟細。若繫不解者，必是女人髮。」即便繫之不解。便生想念：「此髮如是，人必妙好，面如桃花色、眼如明珠、鼻如截筒、口如含丹、眉如蚰蜒。」作是分別已便起欲心，順水尋求，想見顏色。追求不已，見一女人狐狼已噉其半，身形臭爛其髮猶存，執髮比之長短相似，向者欲想釋然自解。復重觀之分別惟察：「此人生時形容嚴好，今者壞敗令人得見。我向所起想者，但欲貪身愛欲，故而生斯念耳。彼身如是，我復何異。諦計我身四大合成，福盡緣離自然解散。」覩變心悟，即達道迹。以是言之，念身者獲沙門果也。

"Mindfulness of the body" means observing the thirty-six impure substances and repulsive discharges of the body, mindfully focused and unconfused, thereby also attaining nirvāṇa. How is this known? In the past, there was a monk who was an āraṇyaka. He constantly went begging for food, and ate by the riverbank; having finished eating, he washed his bowl. At that time, in a cemetery on the bank upstream, there was a newly deceased woman; the wind blew her hair, and it suddenly fell into the bowl. The monk took this hair in his hand, looked at it carefully, and found it extraordinarily beautiful. He said to himself aloud: "If it were horsehair, it would be too fine. If it were a man's hair, it would be too soft and fine. If it does not untangle when tied, it must be a woman's hair." He then tied it and it did not untangle. Then he gave rise to the thought: "If the hair is like this, the person must be extraordinarily beautiful, with a face like peach blossoms, eyes like bright pearls, a nose like a cut bamboo cylinder, a mouth like held cinnabar, and eyebrows like millipedes." Having made such distinctions, he gave rise to lustful thoughts; following the water, he searched, yearning to see her appearance. Pursuing without stopping, he saw a woman, half-eaten by foxes and wolves, her body foul and putrid, with her hair still remaining. Taking the hair, he compared it, and the lengths were alike; his earlier lustful thoughts dissolved naturally. Again he observed it closely, distinguishing and scrutinising: "When this person was alive, her appearance was adorned and beautiful, but now it is decomposed and ruined, shown for people to see. The thoughts I gave rise to earlier were merely greed for the body and lustful desire, which is why I conceived such thoughts. That body is like this; how am I any different? Accurately considered, my body is formed by the coming together of the four great elements; when merits are exhausted and conditions separate, it naturally disperses." Seeing the transformation, his mind was awakened, and he immediately attained the track of the Way. Speaking from this, one who is mindful of the body obtains the fruits of a śramaṇa.