釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 9.13

9.13

一、明修證者，行人先持戒清淨，令心不悔，易受觀法，能破婬欲諸煩惱賊故。爾時，當先觀人初死之時，辭談言語，息出不反，忽已死亡，氣滅身冷，無所覺知。室家驚慟，號天叫地，言說方爾，奄便何去？此為大畏，無可免者，譬如劫盡火燒，無有遺脫，如偈說：

First, clarifying cultivation and realization: The practitioner first keeps the precepts pure so that the mind has no regret, easily receives the method of contemplation, and can break the bandit of lust and all defilements. At that time, one should first contemplate when a person first dies: parting words and speech [cease], the breath goes out and does not return, suddenly they are already dead; breath extinguished, body cold, devoid of awareness. The family is shocked and grieved, wailing to heaven and crying to the earth. Speech was just present, yet where have they abruptly gone? This is a great terror, from which none can escape, like the fire at the end of the kalpa, leaving nothing behind, as the verse says: