[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) › [阿彌陀經要解](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762) › 1.149 # 阿彌陀經要解 1.149 阿彌陀經要解 1.149 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1.149) 問：「今發願者但可當生，何得云若今生？」答：「此亦二義：一、通約一期名今，則現生發願持名，臨終決定得生淨土，是今發願即今生也；二、局約剎那名今，則一念相應一念生，念念相應念念生，妙因妙果不離一心，如秤兩頭低昂時等，何俟娑婆報盡方育寶池？只今信願持名，便非娑婆界內人矣。極圓極頓、難議難思，惟有大智方能諦信。」 > Question: "Those who currently aspire can only be born in the future; how can it say 'are currently born'?" Answer: "This also has two meanings: first, pervasively speaking of a single lifetime as 'current,' if in the present life one generates aspiration and holds the name, at the end of life one is definitively reborn in the Pure Land—this means that currently aspiring is currently being born. Second, strictly speaking of a single moment of thought as 'current,' then with one thought corresponding, one is born in that one thought; with thought after thought corresponding, one is born in thought after thought. The wondrous cause and wondrous fruit are not separate from the one mind, just like the simultaneous lowering and rising of the two ends of a scale—why wait until one's Sahā retribution is exhausted to be nurtured in the jeweled pond? Right now, through faith, aspiration, and holding the name, one is no longer a person within the Sahā realm. This is supremely perfect and supremely sudden, difficult to conceive and difficult to fathom; only those of great wisdom can truly believe it." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.148](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1.148) - [Next: 1.150](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1.150) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762~en-mt.1.149) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1.149) · Pramāṇa