起信論疏筆削記 20.32

20.32

Yet today there are those who do not examine the advantages and harms, and who fail to discern the superiority and inferiority of causes and conditions regarding the two lands; speaking of emptiness while acting on existence, counting others' treasures while suffering poverty themselves, they often take their reasoning to the extreme to deny the West, sinking into emptiness and slandering the teaching, placing their trust in the vulgar opinions of later generations while rejecting the expedients of the awakened of the past. Relying on themselves as correct, what correctness is there? Saying they have forgotten their sentiments, what sentiments have they forgotten? When it comes to praise they rejoice, and when it comes to slander they anger—how great their delusion! They fail to realize that to retain the self while trying to enter awakening makes awakening thoughts all the more distant; and as for their failure to believe that Sukhāvatī is a place to rest one's shoulders and take off one's shoes, I am grieved by this and cannot refrain [from speaking].