摩訶止觀 9.56

9.56

於坐禪中忽見死屍在地。言說方爾，奄便那去？氣盡身冷，神逝色變；無常所遷，不簡豪賤；老少端醜，無逃避處；慈父孝子，無相代者。屍腥在地，風吹日暴，與本永異。或見一屍、多屍，是大不淨觀相；或滿一聚落、一國土；或一屍色變，或多屍色變。死屍雖非九數，是諸想之本，故先說之。是等死屍顏色黯黑；身體洪直，手足葩花；膖脹𦠇鄧如韋囊盛風；九孔流溢甚為穢惡。行者自念：「我身如是，未離未脫；觀所愛人，亦復如是。」是相發時，得一分定心，黮黮安快。

While sitting in meditation, one suddenly sees a corpse lying on the ground. Speech was just occurring—how has it suddenly gone? The breath is spent and the body is cold; the spirit has departed and the complexion changed. Transformed by impermanence, it discriminates not between the noble and the lowly; old and young, handsome and ugly, have nowhere to flee or hide; compassionate fathers and filial sons cannot substitute for one another. The putrid corpse lies on the ground, winds blowing and sun scorching it, forever different from its original state. One sees either a single corpse or many corpses—this is the mark of the great contemplation of impurity; or they fill an entire village or an entire country; or one corpse's color changes, or the colors of many corpses change. Although the corpse is not among the count of the nine, it is the root of the various contemplations, and so is explained first. These corpses are dim and black in color; their bodies are swollen and rigid, their hands and feet splayed; distended and bloated like a leather bag filled with wind; the nine apertures overflowing, exceedingly foul and vile. The practitioner thinks to himself: "My body is like this, not yet free, not yet liberated; and when I observe my beloved, it is also like this." When this mark manifests, one attains a portion of a settled mind, murky, calm, and delightful.