四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 3.323

3.323

As for the caregiver, according to the person before him—whether the illness is severe or mild, whether the mind is sharp or dull, whether the karma is coarse or subtle, and whether the inclinations are toward rejection or acceptance—he should follow his aspirations and subsequently recount them: either focusing on the Buddha of Immeasurable Life (Amitāyus) in the west, or the Maitreya Buddha in Tuṣita, or our original teacher Śākyamuni on Vulture Peak; or explaining that the body fundamentally lacks a person and one delusionally establishes a self; or that external appearances seem to exist but are in reality empty and nonexistent, just as when one reaches the place of a mirage, there is no appearance of water; or explaining consciousness-only and the absence of external objects, which are merely the delusional views of the mind. In each case, one guides him according to capacity and eloquence.