阿彌陀經義疏 1.10

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四、明果者，果即教用，亦有二別：一者、近果，經云：「是人終時心不顛倒，即得往生極樂世界」，由前稱佛結業成因，捨此穢苦感彼淨樂，即獲法性淨身，住同居淨土也。二者、遠果，下云：「眾生生者，皆得不退阿耨菩提」，此謂生彼國已，聞法得忍，修菩提道斷惑，證真究竟成佛，即證清淨法身，居法性土也。上列四章略提梗概，餘如後釋，仍委他文。

Fourth, explaining the fruit: the fruit is the function of the teaching, which also has two distinctions: First is the proximate fruit. The sūtra states: "When this person's life ends, their mind is not inverted, and they immediately attain rebirth in the Sukhāvatī world." Due to the previous recitation of the Buddha, karmic affinity is formed and becomes the cause; casting off this defiled suffering and evoking that pure joy, one immediately obtains the pure body of the Dharma-nature and dwells in the Land of Common Residence. Second is the distant fruit. Below it states: "Sentient beings who are born there all attain the stage of non-retrogression toward anuttarā samyaksaṃbodhi." This means that after being born in that land, hearing the Dharma and attaining forbearance, cultivating the path of bodhi and severing afflictions, realizing the true and ultimately accomplishing buddhahood, one immediately realizes the pure dharmakāya and dwells in the Land of Dharma-nature. The four headings listed above briefly raise the general outline; the remainder will be explained later, relying on other texts for detail.