釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 8.30

8.30

Next, clarifying the marks of the intermediate realization. When the practitioner abides in this absorption, samādhi gradually deepens, and they perceive that following the breath, the breaths produced within the five viscera each have distinct characteristics—namely blue, yellow, red, white, black, and so forth—varying with the color of the viscera and exiting to the pores. If entering form from the faculties, their characteristics are also different. Differentiated in this way, the characteristics of the breaths are manifold. Furthermore, one sees that the thin skin, thick skin, membranes, and flesh of this body each have ninety-nine layers, there are three hundred and sixty large and small bones, and the marrow each has ninety-eight layers. Between these bones and flesh there are various worms with four heads, four mouths, and ninety-nine tails; such shapes and forms are manifold, and one even perceives their exiting and entering, coming and going, sounds, and speech. Only the brain has four sections, each section having fourteen layers.