釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 10.63

10.63

第二、次明修證。行者住第四禪中，以成就自在勝色，爾時應用念清淨心，捨七種色，直念青色，取少青光焰相，如草葉大，一心緣中，即與少青相應。觀心運此少青遍照十方，即見光明隨心普照，一切世間皆見青相遍滿，停住不動，如青世界，是名青一切處。餘七一切處修觀之相亦當如是一一分別。自有師言：「修一切處，緣取草葉等相，因外色起相，遍滿普照。」如此說者，非唯乖失觀門之法，亦與《摩訶衍》所說都不相關。

Second, next is explaining cultivation and realization. The practitioner abides in the fourth dhyāna, having already accomplished the masterfully controlled superior colors. At that time, applying a mind of pure mindfulness, they abandon the seven kinds of colors and directly focus their mindfulness on the blue color. Grasping a slight sign of blue radiance the size of a blade of grass, they single-mindedly condition upon its center, and immediately correspond with that slight blue. With the contemplative mind, they direct this slight blue to shine pervasively throughout the ten directions, whereupon they see the radiance illuminating everywhere following their mind: in all the world, the blue sign is seen to pervade fully, remaining still and motionless like a blue realm. This is called the blue totality sphere. The characteristics of cultivating contemplation for the remaining seven totality spheres should also each be distinguished in this way. There are teachers who say: "In cultivating the totality spheres, one grasps the signs of grass blades and the like as conditions; arising from external color, the sign pervades and illuminates everywhere." Those who speak like this not only deviate from the methods of the contemplation gates, but also have no connection whatsoever with what is taught in the *Mahāyāna* [scriptures].