觀念阿彌陀佛相海三昧功德法門 1.8

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又行者若欲坐，先須結跏趺坐，左足安右髀上與外齊，右足安左髀上與外齊，右手安左手掌中，二大指面相合。次端身正坐，合口閉眼，似開不開、似合不合，即以心眼先從佛頂上蠃髻觀之。頭皮作金色，髮作紺青色，一髮一蠃卷在頭上。頭骨作雪色，內外明徹，腦如玻𭺊色。次想腦有十四脈，一一脈有十四道光，從髮根孔出外，繞髮蠃七匝，還從毛端孔中入。次想前光從二眉毛根孔中出向外。次想額廣平正相。次想眉高而長相，由如初月。次想眉間白毫相卷在眉間，其毛白外實內虛，出金色光。從毛端而出，直照自身來。如《觀佛三昧經》說：「若有人一須臾頃觀白毫相，若見若不見，即除却九十六億那由他恒河沙微塵數劫生死重罪。」常作此想，太除障滅罪，又得無量功德，諸佛歡喜。

Furthermore, if the practitioner wishes to sit, they must first sit in paryaṅkāsana: place the left foot on the right thigh aligned with the outer edge, place the right foot on the left thigh aligned with the outer edge, place the right hand in the palm of the left hand, and bring the tips of the two thumbs together. Next, hold the body upright and sit straight; close the mouth and close the eyes, seeming open yet not open, seeming closed yet not closed. Then, with the mental eye, first contemplate the uṣṇīṣa curls on the Buddha's crown. The scalp is golden, and the hair is dark blue; each single hair and each single curl spirals on the head. The cranium is snow-colored, brilliant and transparent inside and out, and the brain has the color of crystal. Next, visualize that the brain has fourteen channels, each channel having fourteen rays of light that emerge from the pores of the hair roots, encircle the hair curls seven times, and re-enter through the pores at the tips of the hairs. Next, visualize the aforesaid light emerging outward from the pores at the roots of the two eyebrows. Next, visualize the mark of the broad, flat, and straight forehead. Next, visualize the mark of the eyebrows, high and long, like the crescent moon. Next, visualize between the eyebrows the ūrṇā-lakṣaṇa curling between the eyebrows; the hair is solid on the outside and hollow on the inside, emitting golden light. Emerging from the tip of the hair, it shines straight upon one's own body. As the Guanfo sanmei jing says: 'If someone contemplates the ūrṇā-lakṣaṇa for even a single moment, whether they see it or not, they immediately eradicate the heavy sins of birth and death spanning ninety-six koṭis of nayutas of grains of sand of the Ganges in atomic particles of kalpas.' Constantly generating this visualization greatly removes obstacles, eradicates sins, and attains immeasurable merit, bringing joy to all Buddhas.