釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 8.95

8.95

Next, explaining the characteristics of the absorption of the station of little consciousness [i.e., nothingness], the sūtra states: 'If there is a monk who contemplates the emptiness of the three times, knowing that all conditioned phenomena both arise and cease, and that the station of space and station of consciousness also arise and cease; having performed this contemplation, he sequentially contemplates consciousness: "My consciousness now is also neither conscious nor non-conscious. If it is non-conscious, this is called quiescent; why should I now seek to sever this consciousness?" This is called attaining the absorption of the station of little consciousness.'