釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 8.20

8.20

Furthermore, when the practitioner contemplates the breath, since breath is not grasped, they thereby penetrate the emptiness and quiescence of form and mind. Why is this? Because the three phenomena are not separate from one another. The same applies to form and mind. If one cannot grasp the three matters of [breath,] form, and mind, one cannot grasp any phenomenon whatsoever. Why is this? Because it is through the conjunction of these three matters that all the suffering and afflictions of the aggregates, sense fields, and realms, as well as karmic actions good and bad, are produced, coming and going throughout the five destinies in ceaseless transmigration. If one realizes that these three matters are unproduced, then all phenomena are fundamentally empty and quiescent. This is a brief explanation of the characteristics of practicing the mind of suchness.