樂邦文類 1.156

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《觀經疏》曰「落日懸皷，用標送想之方。」《妙宗》曰「繫心之法，須觀落日者，欲令定想趣於西方，是向彌陀所居處故，即以所見落日為境想之。今起觀中之日，以圓人知能想心本具一切依正。今以具日之心，緣於即心之日，令本性日顯現其前。斯乃以法界心，緣法界境，起法界日。既皆法界，豈不即空假中？此心堅住明了，則日觀成也。」

The Commentary on the Contemplation Sūtra says: "The setting sun like a suspended drum serves to mark the direction toward which thought is directed." The Miaozong says: "As for the method of binding the mind, one must contemplate the setting sun because one desires to direct concentrated thought toward the West, which is facing where Amitābha resides; hence one takes the setting sun seen as the object of thought. Now, in giving rise to the sun within contemplation, the person of the Perfect [Teaching] knows that the thinking mind fundamentally possesses all circumstantial and primary rewards. Now, by using the mind endowed with the sun to focus on the sun that is identical with mind, one causes the sun of one's fundamental nature to manifest before oneself. This is to use the dharmadhātu mind to take the dharmadhātu object as condition and raise the dharmadhātu sun. Since all are the dharmadhātu, how could they not be identical with the empty, the provisional, and the middle? When this mind abides firmly and clearly, then the sun contemplation is accomplished."