釋門歸敬儀 2.49

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今欲親覲諸佛，聞出世法，作何方便修行正行？以凡無始，約相修福，故還約相，行遠離法。《論》云未位大清淨已來，終無住故。所以先置道場，安設尊像，幡蓋華香隨力供養。有十種相，見佛善根：一者禮拜；二者讚歎；三者發願迴向；四者觀佛相好；五者專念修慈；六者三歸十善；七者發菩提心；八者讀誦經戒；九者供養舍利，造佛形像，十者修行正觀。（萬行雖殊，據理唯一。）今以釋尊遺法所修行者，竝付慈佛，令悟聖果。文相既廣，理固難違，或願生淨土，例亦無壅，以正覺義齊，拯濟情一，解脫便止，何有乖離？且以慈氏標宗，餘則十方準例。

Now, wishing to personally behold the Buddhas and hear the supramundane Dharma, what skillful means should one use to practice the correct practice? Because ordinary persons have cultivated merit based on marks since beginningless time, they must likewise rely on marks to practice the Dharma of detachment. A treatise states that from before reaching the stages until the great purification, there is ultimately nowhere to abide. Therefore, one first sets up a sanctuary, installs revered images, and makes offerings of banners, canopies, flowers, and incense according to one's ability. There are ten marks of good roots for seeing the Buddha: first, bowing; second, praising; third, making vows and dedicating [merit]; fourth, contemplating the Buddha's physical marks and minor signs; fifth, exclusively recollecting [the Buddha] and cultivating benevolence; sixth, the three refuges and the ten virtues; seventh, giving rise to the bodhicitta; eighth, reading and reciting the sūtras and precepts; ninth, making offerings to relics and creating Buddha images; tenth, cultivating correct contemplation. (Although the myriad practices are different, according to the principle they are one.) Now, those who practice what has been bequeathed by Śākyamuni are all entrusted to the Benevolent Buddha (Maitreya) to enable them to awaken to the noble fruition. Since the textual marks are vast and the principle is truly hard to contravene, if one vows to be born in a pure land, by parity of reasoning there is likewise no obstruction. Because the meaning of correct enlightenment is identical, the intent to rescue is one, and liberation is the cessation [of suffering], what contradiction could there be? Thus, taking Maitreya as exemplifying the main principle, the rest [of the Buddhas] in the ten directions follow this standard.