維摩經略疏垂裕記 5.153

5.153

三、約斷集破。「揣食」者，揣音團。《漢書》云「何足控揣」，此假借字也，今體作摶。《通俗文》云「手團曰摶。」「四食」者，荊溪云：觸、思、識、段。揣是古譯，新不用者，謂飲粖等豈可為揣？凡云食者，取能資長，滅壞身者不得食名，如毒藥等，雖食非資。觸如冷等。思如意思，能延報命。識如分別，令報命住。古人有章，不能廣敘。今意但取段食為語，餘者相從。羅什云「食有四種：一曰揣食。二曰願食，如見沙囊命不絕，是願食也。三曰業食，如地獄不食而活，由其罪業應久苦痛也。四曰識食，無色眾生識想相續也。」

Third, refuting on the basis of severing origination. Regarding "morsel food" (揣食), 揣 is pronounced tuán (團). The Book of Han says, "How is it worth grasping and clutching (揣)?" This is a phonetic loan character, which in present-day orthography is written 摶 (tuán). The Tongsu wen says: "Clustering by hand is called tuán (摶)." Regarding the "four foods," Jingxi says: "Contact, volition, consciousness, and solid morsels. 'Morsel' (揣) is the old translation; the new does not use it, arguing: how could drinking gruel and the like be considered a morsel? Generally speaking, what is called food is taken as that which can nourish and sustain; that which destroys the body does not get the name of food—such as poison, which, though eaten, is not nourishing. Contact is like cold, and so forth. Volition is like mental volition, which can prolong the retribution life. Consciousness is like discernment, which makes the retribution life endure. The ancients had treatises on this, which cannot be extensively narrated. The present intention is only to speak of morsel food, and the others follow along with it. Kumārajīva says: 'There are four kinds of food: first, morsel food; second, aspirational food, like seeing a bag of sand so that life is not cut off, this is aspirational food; third, karmic food, like in hell where one does not eat yet stays alive, because one's sinful karma must suffer pain for a long time; fourth, consciousness food, where the consciousness and conceptions of formless beings continue in succession.'"