起信論疏筆削記 20.40

20.40

德多中，論　受持者，領受法義，任持在心，食頃之際散心思惟，功不可喻。況一日一夜定心觀察，時長行勝，所獲功德誠如此言，不可思說也。

In the abundance of virtue, the treatise states: Regarding 'upholding', to receive the doctrinal principles and maintain them in one's mind, reflecting on them with a distracted mind even for the span of a meal, has merit beyond comparison. How much more so if one contemplates with a concentrated mind for a single day and night: the duration is longer and the practice superior, so the merit and virtue obtained are truly as stated, inconceivable and unspeakable.