摩訶止觀 8.61

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○第三、觀病患境者：夫有身即是病。四蛇性異，水火相違。鴟梟共棲，蟒鼠同穴。毒器重擔，諸苦之藪。四國為隣，更互侵毀；力均則暫和，乘虛則吞併。四大休否，此喻可知。諸佛問訊法云：「少病少惱？」佛同人法，人既有病，權不得無，但言少耳。

3. Contemplating the Realm of Sickness and Affliction: Having a physical body is itself sickness. The four serpents differ in nature, and water and fire oppose each other. Owls and horn-owls nest together; pythons and rats share the same hole. A vessel of poison, a heavy burden, a thicket of all sufferings. Like four nations bordering each other, mutually invading and destroying; when their strength is equal, there is temporary harmony, but seizing vulnerability, they swallow each other up. Whether the four great elements are in balance or disorder can be understood from this analogy. The formula of greeting among the buddhas says, 'Are you with little sickness and little affliction?' The Buddha conformed to human norms: since humans have sickness, expeditiously [his body] could not lack it, but it was merely called 'little.'