The Engineering of Cultivating the Mind
閉門無事後 此地即山中
但覺鳥聲異 不知人境同
晚花開為雨 殘果落因風
無論住於何方處所，若樹林或岩洞山背等，只要意能內住者，是為修止而相應處。這能影響你生理與心理向內修收，而不任由境轉，是住心修定的地方。
雪山高處適於修觀，但是要配合個人情況。若住高廣處，而自性清明廣大，是此為觀慧之處所也。
大眾對自己選擇修行住處，須知住處之取捨，乃攝其義者。想修行、修道者，修行處很重要，住的地方有法能夠讓你生起道心，是資糧增長加行處，如是即合真實菩提處。
自性極寂方處所 淨水苦行德資養
此生惑亂情鬧離 願修甚深法三昧
修行須知自性清淨寂滅的境界，猶如淨水一般，會幫助我們洗滌內心的污垢，使我們修的苦行，迅速成就功德。選擇修行之處能安住身心精勤，可以幫助福德增加、智慧增長，如此，修甚深之法門容易成就。
資料來源：心靈甘露(三)，隆門圓通法師著。英文翻譯：張惠平。
The Engineering of Cultivating the Mind
After the door is closed and when I have nothing to do, this place is the mountain.
I only feel the weird chirping of the birds, but I don’t know that people are in the same situation.
The flowers bloom late due to the rain, and the remaining fruits fall because of the wind.
Wherever you are—in the woods, cave or back of a mountain—as long as you can make your intention abide inward, you are cultivating stopping and the place you are in is the responding place. This can make you correct and withdraw physically and mentally instead of changing with situations. Your place is for you to stabilize your mind and cultivate Samadhi.
The high location of a snowy mountain is suitable for people to cultivate observation, but it has to be compatible with personal conditions. If one lives in a high and wide place and his nature is clear and wide, then such a place is good for observing wisdom.
The choice for cultivation site has to assimilate its significance. It is very important to have a good place for cultivating one’s conduct and principles. The place you live in has to be able to make you give rise to the desire for cultivating the principles and increase your sambhara. If so, such a place will be the real place of Bodhi.
The self-nature is extremely silent and the residence is neat.
With pure water, I practice ascetically and I am nurtured by virtues.
Since all the delusions, chaos, troubles, and disturbances are already gone in this life,
I intend to cultivate the deep Samadhi approaches.
When cultivating, we should know the realm in which the self-nature is pure and extinct, and is like the purified water that can cleanse the taint in our minds and thus can turn our ascetic practice into merits. Choosing a place for practice may not only make us peaceful mentally and physically and hardworking but also increase our blessings, virtues and wisdom. Then, it will be easy for us to make achievements in cultivating the deep approaches.
Source: Sweet Dew for the Soul (Vol. III), Written by Master Shih Longmen Yuantong. Translated by Huei Ping Chang.