釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 9.27

9.27

Ninth is the notion of being burned. The practitioner further goes to the charnel ground, and either sees a heap of brushwood and logs burning a corpse, the belly bursting open and fat pouring out, crackling and exploding with foul-smelling smoke, extremely terrifying; or sees only white bones burning, smoke and flames blazing through, the fuel exhausted and the fire extinguished, the form turning into ash and soil. Even if not burned and not buried, it likewise returns to complete destruction. As for the person I loved, contemplating them in this way, the marks of the body are completely exhausted, worse than [the carnage of] weapons. Bathing, perfuming, adornment with powders and flowers, the soft, plump, delicate body, pleasant warmth, flattery and charm—with which people were captivated—are now all worn away and gone; where in the end are they? I reflect to myself: 'My own body has not escaped this phenomenon.' With single-minded samādhi, one eliminates worldly greed and love.