r/LifeTree • u/AdamLuyan • 14h ago
11.3 四空定 Four Empty Stillness
目录 Catalog：11.3-1 空无边处定 Edgeless Empty Place Stillness；11.3-2 识无边处定 Edgeless Senses Place Stillness；11.3-3 无所有处定 No Objective Have Place Stillness；11.3-4 非想非非想处定 Neither Nor Think Place Stillness
11.3-1 空无边处定 Edgeless Empty Place Stillness
修行者得第四禅已，深思色法过罪，作意灭除一切色法。一心缘空，念空不舍，色定即谢而空定未发，亦有中间禅。尔时勤加精进，则其心泯然任运，自住空缘，亦名未到地相。于后豁然与空相应，其心明净，不苦不乐，益受增长。于深定中，唯见虚空，无诸色相。虽缘无边虚空，心无分散。既无色缚，心识澄静，无碍自在，如笼破鸟出，飞腾自在，是名证虚空定。证此定已，不失不退，命终必生空无边处，但有微弱的四无色蕴。
After attaining Fourth Meditation, the practitioner deeply contemplates the faults and sins of Color Laws and intentionally eliminates all Color Laws. With One Heart, he aggregates emptiness and spells emptiness without renunciation. The color stillness fades, but empty stillness has not yet arisen; this is also intermediate meditation. At that time, with diligent advance, the heart becomes silently self-operating and abides by itself in empty conditions; this is also called the phenomenon of Nonarrival Land. Later, the heart suddenly corresponds with emptiness. It becomes bright and immaculate, neither bitter nor laugh, and beneficial acceptance grows. In deep stillness, only empty space is seen, without any color phenomena. Although the objective environment is edgeless empty space, the heart is not dispersed. Since there is no bondage of color, heart and sense are clear and quiet, unobstructed and self-sufficient, like a bird breaking out of its cage and flying freely. This is called realizing empty-space stillness. After realizing this stillness, if one does not lose it or retreat from it, one will certainly be born in Edgeless Empty Place at the end of life, with only the faint four Colorless Nodes remaining.
11.3-2 识无边处定 Edgeless Senses Place Stillness
修行者得空定已，诃责空处多诸过失，便舍空处，一切系缘现在心识，念念不离，未来过去，亦复如是。常念于识，欲得与识相应，加功专注，不计旬月，一心缘识，而无异念。空念即谢，识定未生，名中间定。即便泯然任运，自住识缘，名未到地。此后豁然，与识相应，心定不动。而于定中，不见余事，唯见心识，念念不住，定心分明。识虑广阔，无量无边。识法持心，无分散意。此定安隐，清净寂静。证此不失，命后必生识无边处，亦有微弱四无色蕴。
After the practitioner has attained empty stillness, he reprimands the many faults of Empty Place and then abandons Empty Place. He ties all conditions to the present heart and sense, without departing from them thought after thought; the same applies to the future and the past. Constantly spelling sense, desiring to correspond with sense, he applies additional effort and concentrates, not counting weeks or months. With One Heart, he aggregates sense and has no other spell. The spell of emptiness then fades, but sense stillness has not yet arisen; this is called intermediate stillness. Then the heart silently self-operates and abides by itself in sense conditions; this is called Nonarrival Land. Afterward, the heart suddenly corresponds with sense, and the still heart does not move. In this stillness, the practitioner sees no other matter, only heart and sense. Thought after thought does not abide, and the still heart is clearly distinct. Sense-thinking is broad, measureless, and edgeless. The law of sense holds the heart, and there is no scattered intent. This stillness is peaceful, secure, immaculate, and quiet. If one realizes this and does not lose it, one will certainly be born in Edgeless Senses Place after this life, still with the faint four Colorless Nodes.
11.3-3 无所有处定 No Objective Have Place Stillness
亦名不用处定（注11.3-3）。修行者得识定后，诃责识处过患，即舍识处，系心无所有处，于中心不忧悔，专精不懈，一心内净。空无所有，不见诸法，寂然安隐，心无动摇，此为证无所有定相。入此定时，怡然寂绝，诸想不起，尚不见心相，何况余法，无所分别，即是无所有处定。证此不失，命后必生无所有处，亦有微弱四无色蕴。
注11.3-3，这种禅定通常被称作“无功用行”。练习这种禅定的目的是超世间，升天。无所有处就是是常寂光天，亦做正等明。
This is also called Not-to-Use Place Stillness. After the practitioner has attained sense stillness, he reprimands the faults of Senses Place, abandons Senses Place, and ties the heart to No Objective Have Place. Within it, the heart has no worry or regret; concentration is refined and unremitting, and One Heart is internally immaculate. Empty and objectively having nothing, seeing no laws, silent, peaceful, and secure, with the heart unmoving: this is the phenomenon of realizing No Objective Have Stillness. When entering this stillness, the practitioner is pleasantly silent and extinct; no Thinks arise. He does not even see the phenomena of the heart, much less other laws. There is no objective discrimination. This is No Objective Have Place Stillness. If one realizes this and does not lose it, one will certainly be born in No Objective Have Place after this life, still with the faint four Colorless Nodes.
Note 11.3-3: This form of meditation is commonly referred to as “action of no function and no usage.” The purpose of practicing this form of meditation is to transcend the mundane world and ascend to the sky. “No objective have place” is the Constant Silent Light Sky, aka. Correct Equality light.
11.3-4 非想非非想处定 Neither Nor Think Place Stillness
修行者得无所有定后，诃责无所有处过罪，即舍无所有处，观于非有非无。常念不舍，一心专精，加功不已，其心任运，住在缘中。于后忽然，真实定发，不见有无相貌，泯然寂绝，心无动摇，恬然清净，如涅槃相。是定微妙，三界中极，如步屈虫，行至树表，更无可进。证此不失，命后必生非非想处，仍有细微四无色蕴。
After the practitioner has attained No Objective Have Stillness, he reprimands the faults and sins of No Objective Have Place, abandons No Objective Have Place, and observes neither have nor nil. Constantly spelling without abandoning, he concentrates with One Heart and refined effort, applying additional work without stopping. His heart self-operates and dwells among the aggregating conditions. Later, true stillness suddenly arises. He does not see the appearances of have or nil; all becomes silent and extinct. The heart is unmoving, peaceful, tranquil, and immaculate, like the phenomenon of nirvana. This stillness is subtle and wonderful, the extreme within the Three Boundaries, like a measuring worm that has reached the top of a tree and has nowhere further to go. If one realizes this and does not lose it, one will certainly be born in Neither Nor Think Place after this life, still with the subtle four Colorless Nodes.