釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 8.32

8.32

Third, clarifying the marks of the final realization. The practitioner's samādhi and wisdom become increasingly deep, pure, clear, and sharp. They further see the breath harmonized, unified as a single characteristic, like a lapis lazuli vessel, not blue, yellow, red, or white. They also see the entering and exiting of breath as impermanent, arising and ceasing, all entirely empty and quiescent; and they see the bodily characteristics as constantly renewed, impermanently alternating. Why is this? Food and drink are the external four great elements; when they enter the belly to nourish the body, as the new four great elements arise, one should know that the old body ceases accordingly—just as with trees and plants, when new leaves grow, the old leaves fall; the body is also like this. Foolish persons do not understand and take it to be preserving the body; the wise within samādhi perceive this bodily form as shifted by impermanence, arising and ceasing anew, empty and without intrinsic nature, with form being ungraspable. Furthermore, in each moment when a mind arises, there are sixty kṣaṇas of arising and ceasing. Or some say: 'Six hundred kṣaṇas, rapidly arising and ceasing, empty and without intrinsic nature, mind being ungraspable.'