治禪病祕要法 2.15

2.15

"The method of curing it is: visualize a garuḍa on which a bhikṣu rides, roaming fearlessly across the great ocean, while all the nāgas and rākṣasas flee in terror. The bird takes nāgas to eat; out of fear, the nāgas drink up all the water, transforming into four snakes. The garuḍa king holds the four snakes in its beak, and the bhikṣu seated atop it searches for water but cannot find any. Fire issues from the garuḍa king's eyes to burn the snakes, and the snakes are terrified—disappearing like an illusory person created by an illusionist—and enter the bhikṣu's body. Upon emerging from this samādhi, he should take worldly medicine that stops diarrhea. He should visualize two fire jewels: one in the stomach pipe warming all the channels, and one at the anus shaped like a hot stone. He should visualize a deity of the Snow Mountains named Uttaga, whose body is sixty feet tall and white as a shell or snow, holding a fragrant medicine named Sahanaga to bestow upon the practitioner. When taking this medicine, he should first generate the unexcelled mind of bodhi. Having taken this medicine once, the four hundred and four illnesses will never stir for the rest of his life, how much less diarrhea!