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English version The Appearance A corpse is hacked by swords, or wounded by spears and arrows, with blood flowing all over the broken body, this is called the Blemish of Blood. Applying clean fragrant substances to the body, wearing new and colorful clothes, some people develop greed because of this, treating these as wonderful medicine. Regarding one's own body, only allowing oneself to cherish it, not allowing outsiders to see it. Letting many insects gnaw at the corpse, using observation to remove evil thoughts. The muscles and fat of the corpse all dissipate, leaving only teeth and bones. If someone develops greed for teeth, let them observe the skeletal form of the teeth. If seeing a newly deceased person, with consciousness departed and only a broken form remaining, those beings who are greedy for beauty should use this method to remove coquettish postures and desires. Feces, urine, mucus, and saliva, mixed together constitute the body. These thirty-two impure substances, wrapped in skin, are called a person. Hair, body hair, nails, and teeth, liver, intestines, and stomach, etc., depend on each other. Inside, three hundred bones support, and nine hundred tendons are wrapped horizontally. Nine orifices flow with impure things, filth and dirt are difficult to describe. Observing carefully, it is truly disgusting, and wise people should not be close to it. Since observing the bodies of other women, one should also observe one's own body. Regarding this source of greed and attachment, one should constantly keep it in mind. Unable to escape the prison of the Three Realms, all are due to desires that defile the mind. Therefore, wise people should think about this matter extremely seriously. Having experienced the suffering of many hells, fortunately obtaining a human body, how can one indulge a wild heart and not cultivate superior practices? Lust and greed are of many kinds, differing according to the love that arises. One contemplation can remove all of these, which is called the White Bone Meditation. Regarding color, touch, form, and coquettish postures, as well as clothes and ornaments, attachment arises. What medicine can remove these? There is nothing better than the White Bone Meditation. First, on the big toe of the foot, concentrate the mind and visualize it developing a sore, the sore breaking and pus flowing out, and the flesh falling away with the pus. Then observe the skeletal shape of the toe, like the color of a white pigeon. The sore gradually enlarges, and the skin and flesh completely fall off. Visualizing in this order, the muscles of the whole body fall off completely, right mindfulness and superior understanding are achieved, only observing the chain of bones. If there is still a piece of flesh remaining, it is called a distracted mind. How much more so if one indulges the mind like a monkey, chasing after various realms? For a long time, keeping the mind focused on visualization, knowing that one can abide in this state, then gradually extending it to other people.
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总观为骨锁 渐宽至海际 满中皆白骨 此定既成已 舍广复令狭 略时从外舍 乃至唯身骨 还观足指端 是定心次第 或时片片舍 极至于顶骨 应知最后心 眉间摄令住 若作此修习 常生胜梵宫 不落堕三涂 得生于五净 人间散心善 还流生死河 智人修定心 如救身衣火 即可舍诸缘 宜居静林处 勿使无常逼 虚死散心中 以般若净心 终获可爱果 如不愿后有 于胜道应修 剃发着袈裟 宜应修圣道 自余諠杂事 咸为生死因 止观行门七十颂 现代汉语译本 总观想为一具骨骼（骨锁）， 从逐渐宽阔处观想至海边（海际），其中充满着白骨。 当这种禅定修习成就后，舍弃广阔的观想，再次使其变得狭窄。 简略观想时，从外向内舍弃，乃至只剩下自身的骨骼。 再回头观想脚趾的末端，这是禅定修心的次第。 或者有时一片片地舍弃，最终只剩下头顶的骨头。 应当知道最后的心念，要收摄在眉间并使其安住。 如果这样修习，常常能往生到殊胜的梵天宫殿（胜梵宫）， 不会堕落到三恶道（三涂），能够往生到五净居天（五净）。 在人间散乱的心所做的善事，还会流转于生死轮回的长河（生死河）。 有智慧的人修习禅定之心，就像扑灭身上着火的衣服一样紧急。 因此可以舍弃各种尘世的牵绊（诸缘），适宜居住在清静的树林中（静林处）。 不要让无常逼近，在散乱的心中虚度而死。 以般若智慧清净其心，最终能获得可爱的果报。 如果不想再有来世的轮回（后有），就应该修习殊胜的解脱之道（胜道）。 剃除头发，穿上袈裟，就应该修习圣道。 其余喧闹杂乱的事情，都是生死轮回的原因。
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English version Contemplate in general as a skeleton (骨锁). Gradually widen the contemplation to the sea's edge (海际), filled entirely with white bones. Once this samadhi (定) is accomplished, abandon the broad contemplation and make it narrow again. When simplifying, discard from the outside in, until only the bones of the body remain. Then, contemplate the tips of the toes again; this is the order of cultivating the mind in samadhi. Or sometimes discard piece by piece, until only the skull (顶骨) remains. You should know that the final thought should be gathered and settled between the eyebrows. If you practice in this way, you will often be reborn in the excellent Brahma palace (胜梵宫), You will not fall into the three evil realms (三涂), and you can be reborn in the five Pure Abodes (五净). Good deeds done with a scattered mind in the human realm will still flow in the river of birth and death (生死河). A wise person cultivates the mind of samadhi as urgently as putting out a fire on one's clothes. Therefore, one can abandon all worldly attachments (诸缘) and should live in a quiet forest place (静林处). Do not let impermanence approach and die in vain with a scattered mind. With prajna (般若) purify the mind, and you will eventually obtain a lovely result. If you do not wish for future existence (后有), you should cultivate the excellent path (胜道). Shave your head and wear the kasaya (袈裟), you should cultivate the holy path. All other noisy and mixed affairs are the cause of birth and death. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------