摩訶止觀 7.104

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又復當觀：無量劫來，多約名色及以想行而計我人。若其執作，忽聞讚罵，云讚罵我；立、行、住、坐、臥，一切事物皆計於我。如膠塗手，隨執隨著。經云：「凡夫若離我心，無有是處。」若遭貧窮，失於本心，亦計我不息；若得富貴，恣勢縱毒酷害天下，赫怒隆盛怨枉無辜。諸業興起皆我所為，誰代當者？逆風執火，豈不燒手？如彼夜房，謂言有鬼；天明照了，乃本舊人。

Furthermore, one should contemplate: for immeasurable eons, mostly based on name-and-form and perception and formations, one has reckoned a self and a person. If one clings and acts, suddenly hearing praise or censure, one says: '[They] praise or censure me'; standing, walking, staying, sitting, lying down, in all affairs one reckons a self. It is like glue coating the hand: whatever it grasps, it adheres to. A sūtra says: 'For an ordinary person to be free of the mind of self is impossible.' If one encounters poverty and loses one's original mind, one also reckons a self ceaselessly; if one attains wealth and nobility, indulging power and venting poison, cruelly harming the world, ablaze with towering wrath, wronging the innocent. All the karmas arising are done by me—who will take my place? Holding fire against the wind, will it not burn the hand? It is like that night room where one claimed there was a ghost; when daylight illuminates it clearly, it is merely an old acquaintance.