四分律行事鈔資持記 2.1187

2.1187

七食觀中。一觀外食二事，上句念種作，下句思施意。二觀己行全多缺減。下三並觀現心，三即離過心，上食多貪，下食多瞋，中食多癡；離此三心，乃可進口。四即對治心，言正事者，謂更無宅意；正欲事同服藥，以治飢病，即《遺教》云：受諸飲食，當如服藥是也。（有云正謂簡邪命，或云事即四事之一，皆非文意。）五即出離心，道業通三乘三學，世報即人天。

In "Seven: Contemplation on Food": 1. Contemplating the two matters of external food: the upper sentence reflects on the planting and cultivation, the lower sentence ponders the intention of the donor. 2. Contemplating whether one's own practice is complete, abundant, deficient, or diminished. The three below all contemplate one's present mind: 3. The mind free from faults: superior food often brings greed, inferior food often brings anger, medium food often brings delusion; only when free of these three minds may one proceed to eat. 4. The antidotal mind: "proper task" means having no craving thoughts whatsoever, but genuinely intending to treat it just as taking medicine to cure the illness of hunger; that is what the Bequeathed Teaching Sutra means by: "When receiving various foods and drinks, one should regard them as taking medicine." (Some say "proper" eliminates wrong livelihood, or say "task" is one of the four tasks, but neither represents the text's meaning.) 5. The mind of renunciation: the path-undertaking covers the three vehicles and three trainings; worldly retribution refers to humans and devas.