摩訶止觀 4.91

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觀行為衣者，《大經》云：「汝等比丘雖服袈裟，心猶未染大乘法服。」如《法華》云：「著如來衣。如來衣者，柔和忍辱心是。」此即寂滅忍。生死、涅槃，二邊麁獷，與中道理，不二不異，故名「柔和」；安心中道，故名為「忍」。離二喧故名「寂」；過二死故名「滅」。寂滅忍心覆二邊惡，名「遮醜衣」；除五住故，名「障熱」；破無明見，名為「遮寒」；無生死動，亦無空亂意，捨二覺觀，名「遮蚊虻」。此忍具一切法。如鏡有像，瓦礫不現；中具諸相，但空則無。故云：「深達罪福相，遍照於十方；微妙淨法身，具相三十二，用莊嚴法身。」寂忍一觀具足眾德，亦名為「衣」，亦名「嚴飾」；非九、七、五割截所成也。

Regarding contemplative practice as clothing, the Great Sutra says: 'Although you monks wear kāṣāyas, your minds are not yet dyed with the Dharma robes of the Mahāyāna.' As the Lotus [Sutra] says: 'Wearing the Tathāgata's robes. The Tathāgata's robes are a gentle, forbearing mind.' This is the patience of quiescent extinction. The two extremes of birth-and-death and nirvāṇa are coarse and harsh; being non-dual and not different from the principle of the middle way, it is called 'gentle.' Settling the mind in the middle way is called 'forbearance.' Being free from the two kinds of clamor is called 'quiescent'; surpassing the two kinds of death is called 'extinction.' The mind of quiescent-extinction patience covers the evil of the two extremes, so it is called 'clothing that conceals ugliness.' Because it eliminates the five entrenchments, it is called 'warding off heat.' Shattering the views of ignorance is called 'fending off cold.' Free from the agitation of birth-and-death and free from the distraction of emptiness, abandoning the two kinds of vitarka and vicāra, it is called 'repelling mosquitoes and flies.' This patience is endowed with all phenomena. Just as a mirror possesses images while tiles and rubble do not appear [as mirrors], the middle contains all characteristics, whereas mere emptiness lacks them. Thus it is said: 'Deeply penetrating the marks of sin and merit, illuminating everywhere the ten directions; the subtle and wondrous pure dharmakāya is endowed with the thirty-two marks to adorn the dharmakāya.' A single contemplation of quiescent patience is fully endowed with myriad virtues; it is also called 'clothing' and also called 'ornamentation'; it is not formed by the cutting and sewing of nine, seven, or five strips.