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阿難。復有從人。不依正覺修三摩地。別修妄念。存想固形。遊於山林人不及處。有十種仙。
「阿難，復有從人」：又有一等的人，怎麼樣呢？「不依正覺」：他不修行真正的菩提覺道，又不依照楞嚴大定修，不修反聞聞自性這種功夫。他「修三摩地」：他修道的那一種邪定，由妄想攀緣作基礎。
「別修妄念」：他所修的完全是近於一種攀緣。怎麼攀緣呢？他說我現在修行，等我有道業了，我顯一顯神通給所有的人看一看，叫他都相信我，都佩服我，信仰我，崇拜我，供養我。這是一種攀緣心，不是為的想修成佛而行持佛法，令佛教發揚光大，他就想為自己的供養而用功修行。這既屬貪心又是愚癡，這是別修妄念。又怎麼樣呢？
「存想固形」：他總用一種妄想心想把自己身體堅固得像石頭那麼硬，永遠都不會壞。他「遊於山林」：他找一個山林的地方。「人不及處」：人到不了的地方，在深山海島沒有人的地方。「有十種仙」：這有十種仙。
阿難。彼諸眾生。堅固服餌而不休息。食道圓成。名地行他。
阿難，你要知道。「彼諸眾生」：有這一類的眾生。「堅固服餌」：他存著堅固的心。做什麼呢？服餌；餌就是一種藥材，他吃這種藥材。想要怎麼樣呢？想要成仙；他唯一的目的就想成仙。
「而不休息」：這種人都有恆心的，不是今天做了明天就不做；他是天天都用功修行吃這種藥，不休息，他天天都這麼樣。「食道圓成」：他這種藥吃得有了功效，圓成了。「名地行仙」：吃得走路也輕了，身體也輕了，在地上跑得非常快，比鴕鳥都快。澳洲有鴕鳥，一小時跑40miles（哩），有汽車那麼快。這地行仙大約也有汽車那麼快，所以叫地行仙，在地下行走如飛。
堅固草木。而不休息。藥道圓成。名飛行仙。
「堅固草木」：他用一種堅固的心；你誰叫他不用這個方法，那是不可以的。他是其心如石，如鐵；比鐵石都堅固，一定要把它修成了。把什麼修成？就是他配一種的藥，有丸、散、膏、丹，他用草木煉成一種丹藥來吃。天天吃，天天吃，吃得時間久了，思想也成就了一種效驗。
所以「藥道圓成」，名字就叫飛行仙。他也會飛的，身輕如燕，能騰雲駕霧，這叫飛行仙。
堅固金石。而不休息。化道圓成。名遊行仙。
怎麼叫「堅固金石」呢？「堅固」是說這個修道的人心非常堅固。堅固做什麼呢？堅固煉丹砂。煉丹砂要造一個煉丹的爐，把汞，就是水銀，鉛加到一起燒了又燒，煉了又煉；有煉四十九天的，有煉二十一天的，看他修仙的方怎麼樣講，就怎麼樣去煉去；用金、銀煉到一起了，吃這個東西，這叫仙丹妙藥；吃了仙丹可以脫胎換骨，把骨頭都變化了。
說起來這是煉仙的一個祕方。如果煉成了，「化道圓成」：化道，就是他煉丹這種變化，有一種奪造化的能力，所以他圓成了。「名遊行仙」：他願意到什麼地方去就可以到什麼地方去，叫遊行仙。
堅固動止。而不休息。氣精圓成。名空行仙。
「動止」：動就是用功的時候；止就是停止了。動又可以說是運動；止就是修靜功。他運動，譬如打太極拳，這叫動功；靜，他又坐那兒煉精化氣，煉氣化神，煉神還虛。怎麼煉精化氣呢？他打坐專門注重精氣神；煉精，叫精不走，不接近女人精就不走了。精不走，回來就變成氣；氣散到週身上，這叫煉精化氣。他做這一種存想就像雞菢小雞子似的，總這麼想。想自己這個精，怎麼樣化成氣，氣散之於週身，又變成神了。這麼樣子煉神還虛，煉神和虛空一樣；煉虛還無，又到那個無，什麼也沒有了。這時候他覺得很自在的，可以出玄入牝。這是道教講的。
道教，你沒看見道教那個〈玉皇心印經〉上說：「上藥三品，神與氣精。恍恍惚惚，杳杳冥冥。存無所有，窮開而成。惠風混合，百日功臨。莫朝上帝，一技飛身。知者易務，昧者難行，屢見天光，呼吸愈清。」這個空行仙就是到屢見天光，呼吸愈清這種程度：這是道教。
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Sutra:
Furthermore, Ananda, there
are
people who do not rely on Proper Enlightenment to cultivate
samadhi, but cultivate in some special way that is based on their false
thinking. Holding to the
idea of perpetuating their physical bodies, they roam in the mountains
and
forests in places people do not go and become Ten Kinds of Immortals.
Commentary:
Furthermore, Ananda, there
are
people who do not rely on Proper Enlightenment to cultivate samadhi. They
do not rely on the Great Way
leading to Enlightenment, to Bodhi. They do not rely on the Great
Shurangama Samadhi, and they do not cultivate the skill of turning back
their hearing to hear
their own nature. What they cultivate is a deviant samadhi of the
externalist paths. It is based on false thinking and on the urge to
take advantage of
situations.
They cultivate in
some special way that is based on their false thinking.
What they cultivate are exploitations
based on their urge to take advantage of situations. In what way? They
think like this:"I'll cultivate now, and when I have done some deeds in
the Way I'll
display my spiritual penetrations for everyone to see. I'll get them to
believe
in me, admire me, make obeisance to me, and give me offerings." That's
what's meant by taking advantage of situations. It's not for the sake
of becoming a Buddha or for the sake of practicing and upholding the
Buddhadharma so as to help it spread and grow that they cultivate. They
develop
their skill with the idea of getting offerings for themselves. In doing
that, they
display both greed and delusion. "They cultivate some special way that
is based
on their false thinking." What do they have in mind? Their idea is to
use
the false-thinking mind to make their bodies strong—as hard as rock—so
that
they will never deteriorate physically. Holding to the idea of
perpetuating their physical bodies, they roam in the
mountains and forests in places people do not go. They enter deep
into the mountains or perhaps find an uninhabited island, places people
cannot reach,and become Ten Kinds of Immortals.
Sutra:
Ananda, some beings with
unflagging resolution
make themselves strong by using medicinal herbs. When they have
perfected this
method of dieting, they are known as earth-traveling immortals.
Commentary:
Ananda, some beings with
unflagging resolution make themselves strong by using medicinal herbs.They
want to be immortals. That
is their sole aim.They have an "unflagging resolution." They are
consistent in their practice. All the people discussed in this section
are extremely
faithful when it comes to their practice. It's not that they do it
today and neglect
it tomorrow. Every day, day after day, they develop their particular
kind of
skill. In this case it's ingesting herbs. By this they hope to gain
immortality
so that they won't have to die. When they have perfected this
method of dieting to the point that they
get results, they are known as earth-traveling
immortals. The outcome of their efforts is that they become very
light when they walk. Their bodies are buoyant. They can run very
swiftly over the
ground.They get to higher speeds than the emu in Australia, which can
run as
fast as forty miles an hour. This immortal travels over the ground as
if he
were flying; that's how he gets his name.
Sutra:
Some of these
beings with unflagging resolution make themselves strong through the
use of grasses and wood.
When they have perfected this method of taking medicine, they are known
as
flying immortals.
Commentary:
Some of these beings with
unflagging resolution make themselves strong through the use of grasses
and wood.They pursue this practice with
firm determination. If someone were to tell them to discontinue it,
they
would not do it. Their minds are like rock or iron. They are tougher
than nails
when it comes to perfecting their method of practice. In this case they
combine
ingredients to make a medicine, and decoct it until it becomes a pill.
They combine herbs and wood and decoct them into pills which they eat
daily.
They eat these every single day without fail. Due to their
determination and
their wish to succeed, the method eventually starts to work. When
they have perfected this method of taking medicine, they are known
as flying immortals. Their bodies are as light as a wisp of smoke,
and they can mount the clouds and drive the fog.
Sutra:
Some of these
beings with unflagging
resolution make themselves strong through the use of metal and stone.
When they have perfected this method of transformation, they are known
as roaming
immortals.
Commentary:
Some of these beings with
unflagging
resolution make themselves strong through the use of metal and stone. What
is meant by "making
themselves
strong through the use of metal and stone"? It refers to their minds,
which are exceptionally firm and resolved. They decoct pills. First
they construct a stove for decocting. Then they combine mercury and
lead and
heat and reheat it; smelt and resmelt it. They may smelt it for
forty-nine
days or for twenty-one days. It depends on the prescription they are
taught.
They may combine gold and silver and smelt that. Having smelted these
ingredients together, they then ingest them. These are called pills of
immortality—
miraculous medicine. By ingesting pills of immortality they can "avoid
the womb yet get a new set of bones." This passage mentions one of the
secret prescriptions which when smelted can bring immorality. If it is
successfully smelted, then it has a method of
transformation. "Method of transformation" means that the
transformations that occur in smelting the pills endow them with the
ability to recreate. It is perfected. They are
known as roaming immortals.They can go wherever
they please.
Sutra:
Some of these beings with
unflagging resolution make themselves strong through movement and
stillness. When
they have perfected their energy and essence, they are known as
space-traveling immortals.
Commentary:
Some of these beings with
unflagging
resolution make themselves strong through movement and stillness. These
beings work with
determination on
movement and stillness. Movement can refer to the time that they work
on developing their skill. Stillness, then, is when they stop working.
Movement can also refer to exercise. Doing tai ji quan is an example of
movement. Stillness is when they sit and cultivate tranquility. That
is, they sit
and smelt the essence until it transforms into energy; they smelt the
energy until it transforms into spirit, and they smelt the spirit until
it returns
to emptiness.
When they have perfected
their
energy and essence. How do they smelt
the essence into energy? They sit in meditation and reflect upon their
reproductive essence. They specialize in exploring the essence, energy,
and spirit. They smelt their reproductive essence, not allowing it to
escape. They don't go near women. When their essence doesn't escape, it
reverts
inward. In that way it turns into energy, (qi,prana). This
energy becomes fused throughout the body. They smelt
the essence, changing it into energy. They engage in a total reasoning
process, much as a mother hen thinks about the eggs she is incubating.
They keep
reasoning about how their essence is being transformed into energy; how
the energy is pervading their bodies, and then how it is being
transformed
into spirit. Then they smelt the spirit until it returns to
emptiness—until
it becomes like emptiness itself. They then smelt the emptiness until
it
returns to nothing. They go to the point that there's nothing at all.
At that
point they feel very free and at ease. They can "go out esoterically
and
enter the female." That's the way the Taoists phrase it.
Haven't
you read the Taoist text, The Jade
Emperor's Mind Seal Classic, which says, "Superior medicine is of
three kinds: spirit, energy, and essence. Now you see them; now you
don't. They are like an unclear mirage. Keeping nothing brings complete
opening and
success. The gentle currents mesh; after a time skill develops. No need
to idolize the Lord; by your own efforts you can ascend. The wise
awaken
easily;the deluded find it difficult to practice. Repeatedly seeing
divine
brilliance;both the breath and desires become lighter." The space-traveling
immortals have reached the point where they repeatedly see divine
brilliance and both their breath and desires
become lighter. They have reached that level.
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