觀彌勒上生兜率天經贊 2.169

2.169

The Commentary says: This third section, where the two assemblies who have broken precepts repent and attain purity to be reborn, is the third, lower grade of rebirth. Within this there are three parts: first, repenting and taking refuge so that transgressions are extinguished, and cultivating practices to attain rebirth; second, seeing [him] and obtaining non-retrogression; third, meeting Buddhas in future ages. In the first, there are three points: first, the extinguishing of transgressions. Extinguishing of transgressions is twofold: first, having previously received the prohibitive precepts and then violated them; second, not having previously received precepts and having committed various evil deeds. Hearing the name, taking refuge and bowing down, casting the five points of the body—the two hands, two feet, and head—to the ground and repenting with utmost sincerity, their transgressions will swiftly be purified.