往生集 3.57

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The appreciation says: The ancients likened sleep to a minor death—this saying is most apt! For how does the confusion of dreams compare to the delusion of saṃsāra? Yet when one rests with spirit at peace, at the time when life ends, one may perhaps have a bit of self-mastery. Great Master Shandao taught people to enter visualization when approaching sleep—how well-grounded this was!