[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [阿彌陀經疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1757) › 1.218 # 阿彌陀經疏 1.218 阿彌陀經疏 1.218 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.218](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1757.1.218) 經曰：「舍利弗！不可以少善根福德因緣得生彼國」，次釋第一簡少因也。良恐眾生曾聞佛說臨終十念即得往生，我今天命未究且當放逸。為遮此念，故言不可以少善根得生彼國。有人釋云：此文正與《攝論》別時意相應。今釋不然。論言別時意者，如人誦持多寶佛名，決定於無上菩提更不退墮。又唯由發願於安樂土得往生者，皆是別時意。今念佛者但願往生，不論菩提退與不退。又專念佛即離十惡，一念便除八十億劫生死之罪，何況多念！即是有行，非唯發願。《十住論》云：諸菩薩凡起小行發深大願，願大故得大果。我今多念於佛，是即多行，又願往生，願行相資扶，何為不得生於淨土？眾生由聞少善不生即懷疑惑，幾許功德方可得生於彼乎？故下經云：如來教令一日念佛，乃至七日也。是知念佛發願必得往生，非別時意。今經言善根者，未必要是無貪瞋癡三善根也，然亦不離；但今所論一日念佛等所修善根三業，無非往生，決定非別時也。 > The sūtra states: “Śāriputra, one cannot attain birth in that land with few roots of goodness and blessed merit as causal conditions.” Next, this explains the first \[part\], rejecting deficient causes. It is truly feared that sentient beings, having heard the Buddha say that ten recitations at the end of life allow one to immediately attain rebirth, might think: ‘My life span is not yet finished today; I might as well be negligent for now.’ To prevent this thought, it therefore says that one cannot attain birth in that land with few roots of goodness. Someone explained: ‘This passage precisely corresponds to the intention of a different time in the \*Mahāyānasaṃgraha\*.’ My present explanation is not so. When the treatise speaks of an ‘intention of a different time’, it is like a person who recites the name of Prabhūtaratna Buddha and definitely does not recede from unexcelled bodhi; or those who attain rebirth in the Land of Peace and Bliss merely by generating the aspiration—these are all intentions of a different time. Now, those who recite the Buddha's name merely aspire to be born \[there\], without discussing whether they recede from bodhi or not. Moreover, focusing on reciting the Buddha's name immediately leaves behind the ten unwholesome deeds, and a single recitation immediately eliminates the saṃsāric transgressions of eighty billion kalpas, to say nothing of many recitations! Thus, this is active practice, not merely making an aspiration. The \*Daśabhūmika-vibhāṣā\* says: ‘Whenever bodhisattvas give rise to minor practice, they make profound and vast aspirations; because the aspiration is vast, they attain a great fruit.’ Now, we frequently recite the Buddha's name, which is itself manifold practice, and furthermore we aspire to be born \[there\]; aspiration and practice mutually support each other, so why should we not attain birth in the pure land? Sentient beings, hearing that one is not born with few virtues, harbor doubts: ‘How much merit must one possess before one can attain birth there?’ Therefore, the text below states: ‘The Tathāgata instructs that one recite the Buddha's name for one day, up to seven days.’ From this we know that reciting the Buddha's name and making the aspiration will definitely bring about rebirth, and is not an intention of a different time. When the present sūtra speaks of ‘roots of goodness’, they do not necessarily have to be the three roots of goodness of non-greed, non-anger, and non-delusion, though they are not separated from them either; but the three categories of karma of roots of goodness cultivated through reciting the Buddha's name for one day and so forth, as discussed now, without exception lead to rebirth, and are definitively not for a different time.”}\], > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.217](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1757.1.217) - [Next: 1.219](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1757.1.219) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1757.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1757~en-mt.1.218) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [阿彌陀經通贊疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1758.2.135) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1757.1.218](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1757.1.218) · Pramāṇa