治禪病祕要法 1.68

1.68

"Furthermore, Śāriputra! If there is a practitioner burned by the fire of greed, the poison arrow of gain and sustenance, stirred by evil winds, shoots into their heart. Due to the causes and conditions of greed, their mind becomes inverted, thinking day and night across the six periods of the day of expedients for greed, insatiable like a cat watching a mouse, spitting poison to cover their body like a seven-step viper. In such an evil person, the delicate smoothness of gain and sustenance gathers five hundred venomous snakes inside their body; instant by instant, the poisonous fire of their mind blazes without ceasing. Day and night across the six periods, the fierce wind of afflictions blows the firewood of gain and sustenance, blazing without ceasing within their mind, and the snakes contend together to burn the sprouts of good roots. Because of these causes and conditions, the fierce poison of the frenzied black ghost flares up violently; seeing others obtain gain is like an arrow shooting into the heart, like a thorn piercing the eye, like a nail driven into the ear. All sense faculties are blocked; five hundred and five snakes, the four great poisonous dragons, the five sword-wielding bandits, and the rākṣasas of the six villages compete together at once. If they become deranged on account of this, one must cure them quickly.