釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 4.57

4.57

Third, explaining the treatment of the obstacle of oppression by objective conditions: the manifestations of sinful karma are as stated above. For the counteractive method, one should instruct [the practitioner] to recollect the Dharma Buddha (dharmakāya). As for the Dharma Buddha, it is the equality of dharma-nature, unarisen and unceasing, without form or color, empty, quiescent, and unconditioned. Since within the unconditioned there are no objective conditions, what could be a manifestation of oppression? Knowing that objective conditions are empty is itself the counteragent. If one recollected the thirty-two marks, that would not be the counteragent. Why is this? When this person has not yet focused on marks, they are already afflicted and disturbed by objective conditions; if they were to grasp at marks further, many would become possessed by Māra because of this, crazing and deranging their mind. Now, contemplating emptiness destroys all objective conditions; fixing the mind on recollecting the Buddha, its merits are immeasurable, and one immediately extinguishes grave sins. That this is the counteragent is evident from its meaning. The brief explanation of counteractive treatment is finished.