釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 9.13

9.13

First, clarifying cultivation and realization: The practitioner first keeps the precepts pure so that the mind has no regret, easily receives the method of contemplation, and can break the bandit of lust and all defilements. At that time, one should first contemplate when a person first dies: parting words and speech [cease], the breath goes out and does not return, suddenly they are already dead; breath extinguished, body cold, devoid of awareness. The family is shocked and grieved, wailing to heaven and crying to the earth. Speech was just present, yet where have they abruptly gone? This is a great terror, from which none can escape, like the fire at the end of the kalpa, leaving nothing behind, as the verse says: