釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 7.19

7.19

云何修習實觀？行者於定心中以心眼諦觀此身中細微入出息，想如空中風，皮筋骨肉、三十六物如芭蕉不實，內外不淨，甚可厭惡。復觀定中喜樂等受，悉有破壞之相，是苦非樂。又觀定中心識無常生滅，剎那不住，無可著處。復觀定中善惡等法，悉屬因緣，皆無自性。如是觀時，能破四倒，不得人我，定何所依？是名修觀。

How does one cultivate actual contemplation? In the concentrated mind, the practitioner uses the mind's eye to truthfully contemplate the subtle incoming and outgoing breath in this body, visualizing it like wind in the empty sky, and the skin, sinews, bones, flesh, and thirty-six substances as unreal like a plantain tree, internally and externally impure, and deeply loathsome. He further contemplates that feelings such as joy and pleasure in concentration all have the characteristic of destruction, being suffering and not pleasure. He also contemplates that the mental consciousness in concentration is impermanent, arising and ceasing, not abiding for a kṣaṇa, with nowhere to attach. He further contemplates that dharmas such as wholesome and unwholesome in concentration all belong to causes and conditions, entirely devoid of self-nature. When contemplating like this, one can destroy the four inversions; finding no person or self, on what could concentration rely? This is called cultivating contemplation.