釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 6.119

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第二、修行方法者，有二種：一者、訶毀空處，讚歎識處；二者、觀破空處，繫緣念識處。云何名訶責空定？行者知空處定與空相應。虛空無邊，心緣虛空，緣多則散，能破於定。復次，虛空是外法，緣外法入定，定從外生，則不安隱過罪多，是名訶虛空定識處。既是內法緣內法入定，則多寂靜安隱，是故讚歎識處。第二、觀破空處者，觀緣空，受、想、行、識如病如癰，如瘡如刺，無常、苦、空、無我，和合而有，欺誑不實。此即是八聖種觀。前四是對治方法，便是事觀；後無常等四，即是緣諦理觀。

Second, the method of cultivation has two parts: 1. reviling the sphere of space and praising the sphere of consciousness; 2. contemplating to break through the sphere of space and binding the condition to attend to the sphere of consciousness. What is meant by reviling the space absorption? The practitioner knows that the space absorption accords with space. Empty space is boundless; when the mind conditions upon empty space, conditioning upon much causes scattering, which can destroy absorption. Furthermore, empty space is an external dharma; entering absorption by conditioning upon an external dharma, the absorption arises from the outside, which entails insecurity and many faults—this is called reviling the space absorption. Since the sphere of consciousness is an internal dharma, entering absorption by conditioning upon an internal dharma entails great stillness and security; therefore, one praises the sphere of consciousness. Second, contemplating to break through the sphere of space: one contemplates sensation, ideation, volition, and consciousness conditioned upon space as like an illness, like an ulcer, like a boil, like a dart; as impermanent, suffering, empty, and non-self; as existing through assembly, deceitful and unreal. These are the contemplations of the eight noble lineages. The first four are counteractive methods, which constitute contemplation of phenomena; the latter four, impermanence and so forth, are contemplation conditioning upon the truth and principle.