治禪病祕要法 1.69

1.69

"The method for curing it: one should first count the breath, tethering the mind to make it settled. Visualize a sixteen-foot image—purple-golden in body, with the thirty-two marks—sitting on a jeweled lion throne within the seven-jeweled cave of Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa, expounding the method for eliminating greed to the fourfold assembly. [The image] says: 'Son of the Dharma! Contemplate the kāṣāya, six articles, and requisites worn by a greedy person: they are like needle-stitched seams in a forest of thorns, where sword-trees and hundreds of thousands of iron nails and iron-beaked worms will arise to peck and devour your body. Molten copper in caldrons, iron saws, and iron beds are your sitting mats; boiling feces, venomous snakes, iron pellets in caldrons, forests of knives, swords and halberds, tens of billions of thorns, rivers of fire with molten copper, ash broth, pus, and blood are your food and drink.'