[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [妙法蓮華經玄義](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716) › 4.12 # 妙法蓮華經玄義 4.12 妙法蓮華經玄義 4.12 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.4.12) 通明禪者，行者觀息、色、心三事無分別。諦觀出入息，入無積聚，出無分散；來無所經，去無履涉，如空中風，性無所有。息本依身，身本不有。先世妄想，招今四大，圍於虛空，假名為身：頭等六分，三十六物、四微一一非身。觀身由心，心由緣起，生滅迅速，不見住處相貌。但有名字，名字亦空。如是觀息、色、心，不得三性別異。既不得三事，即不得一切法，此是修相。 > As for dhyāna of pervasive clarity: the practitioner contemplates the three matters of breath, form, and mind without differentiation. One attentively contemplates the incoming and outgoing breath: entering, there is no accumulation; exiting, there is no dispersal; coming, there is nothing traversed; going, there is no treaded path—like wind in the sky, its nature is non-existent. Breath originally depends on the body, yet the body is originally non-existent: past deluded thoughts invited the present four great elements to enclose empty space, provisionally named "body." The six parts such as the head, the thirty-six elements, and the four subtle atoms are, each and every one, not the body. Contemplating that the body arises from mind, and mind arises from conditions, arising and perishing with swiftness, one perceives no abiding place or characteristic mark. There are only names, and names too are empty. When contemplating breath, form, and mind in this way, one does not find three distinct natures. Since one does not find these three matters, one does not find any phenomena at all. This is the practice of the characteristics. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.4.11) - [Next: 4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.4.13) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716~en-mt.4.12) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1716.4.12) · Pramāṇa