大方廣圓覺修多羅了義經略疏 1.688

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堅、濕、煖、動假和合也。故《寶積經》云：「此身生時，與其父母四大種性，一類歌羅邏身。」若唯地大無水界者，譬如有人握乾[麩-夫+少]灰終不和合；若唯水界無地界者，譬如油水，無有堅實即便流散；若唯地、水無火界者，譬如夏月，陰處肉團無日光照即便爛壞；若唯地、水、火無風界者，則不增長。《淨名》亦云：「四大合故假名為身，四大無主，身亦無我。」故此經文還分四大，各歸來處。

The solid, moist, warm, and mobile are provisionally harmonized. Thus the Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra says: 'When this body is born, together with the nature of the four great elements of its parents, it forms a kalala body of one category.' If there were only the earth element without the water element, it would be like someone grasping dry roasted flour and ashes, which never harmonize; if there were only the water element without the earth element, it would be like oil and water, having no solid substance and dispersing immediately; if there were only earth and water without the fire element, it would be like a lump of meat in the shade during summer months, which rots away without sunlight; if there were only earth, water, and fire without the wind element, it would not grow. Vimalakīrti also says: 'Because the four great elements unite, it is provisionally named a body; the four great elements have no master, and the body also has no self.' Therefore this sūtra text further breaks down the four great elements, each returning to where it came from.