修習止觀坐禪法要 1.100

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二者、修觀，有二種：一者、對治觀：如不淨觀對治貪欲，慈心觀對治瞋恚，界分別觀對治著我，數息觀對治多尋思等，此不分別也。二者、正觀：觀諸法無相，並是因緣所生；因緣無性，即是實相。先了所觀之境一切皆空，能觀之心自然不起。前後之文，多談此理，請自詳之。如經偈中說：

Second, cultivating contemplation has two kinds: The first is antidote contemplation: such as the contemplation of impurity as the antidote to greedy desire, the contemplation of loving-kindness as the antidote to anger, the contemplation of the analysis of realms as the antidote to attachment to self, and the contemplation by counting breaths as the antidote to excessive discursive thinking, and so on; these are not differentiated here. The second is correct contemplation: contemplating that all phenomena are without mark and are all produced by causes and conditions; causes and conditions having no intrinsic nature is precisely the true mark. First understand that the object contemplated is entirely empty, and the mind capable of contemplating will naturally not arise. The passages before and after speak much of this principle; please examine it for yourself. As a verse in a sūtra says: