摩訶止觀 5.153

5.153

若言「我觀法相，散睡不除」者，當為說止大有功能。止是壁定，八風惡覺所不能入。止是淨水，蕩於貪婬八倒；猶如朝露，見陽則晞。止是大慈，怨親俱愍，能破恚怒。止是大明呪，癡疑皆遣。止即是佛，破除障道，如阿伽陀藥遍治一切，如妙良醫呪枯起死。善巧方便，種種緣喻，令其破惡。是名「對治以止安心」。

If he says, “When I contemplate the characteristics of phenomena, distraction and torpor are not eliminated,” one should explain to him that calming has great function: “Calming is a wall-like concentration that the eight winds and evil thoughts cannot penetrate. Calming is pure water that cleanses lust and the eight inversions; it is like morning dew that evaporates upon seeing the sun. Calming is great loving-kindness that pities both foes and friends alike and can shatter wrath. Calming is a great vidyādhāraṇī that dispels both folly and doubt. Calming is itself the Buddha, shattering obstructions to the Path, like an agada medicine that comprehensively cures all, like a wondrous physician reciting mantras over the withered to raise the dead.” With skillful means and various causes and parables, causing him to shatter evil, this is called “calming the mind by pacifying it in accordance with antidote.”