觀彌勒上生兜率天經贊 2.95

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The Eulogy says: The second is teaching the practices for being born there. This is cultivating five causes: first, upholding the five precepts; second, upholding the eight precepts; third, upholding the complete precepts, which means that what is received by the five assemblies of renunciants is all called complete precepts; fourth, being energetic in body and mind without seeking to sever the fetters—'energetic' means pure and unadulterated, because there is no evil mixed in; 'progress' means ascending and advancing, because there is no laxity or regression; 'not seeking to sever the fetters' means not applying energy through the six aspects of practice to sever fetters, because severing fetters would result in birth in the upper two realms; fifth, cultivating the ten wholesome dharmas. Here, this is only discussing the ordinary person's distracted mind, the five coarse causal practices that bring about the predominant fruit karma of the inner and outer courts; it is not yet a detailed and minute explanation of the causal karma for birth there, which will be fully instructed when extensively exhorting birth. Although cultivating these causes, one must contemplate one by one the supremely wonderful joys of that heaven, so as to dedicate [the merit] and vow to be born there. The preceding practices are not the contemplation, because contemplation is the primary element. Because one contemplates that [heaven], it is called 'contemplation.'