安樂集 1.82

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「三、云何在決定者？彼人造罪時，自依止有後心、有間心生；今此十念者，依止無後心、無間心起，是為決定。又《智度論》云：『一切眾生臨終之時，刀風解形，死苦來逼，生大怖畏。是故遇善知識發大勇猛，心心相續十念，即是增上善根，便得往生。』又如有人對敵破陣，一形之力，一時盡用。其十念之善，亦如是也。又若人臨終時，生一念邪見，增上惡心，即能傾三界之福，即入惡道也。」

Third, how does it lie in decisiveness? When that person committed transgressions, they arose relying on a thought with subsequent thoughts and a thought with interruption. Now, these ten recitations arise relying on a thought without subsequent thoughts and a thought without interruption; this is decisiveness. Furthermore, the *Da zhidu lun* says: 'When all sentient beings are at the point of death, the blade-like winds dismantle the body and the suffering of death presses upon them, giving rise to great terror. Therefore, meeting a good spiritual friend, they arouse great vigor; ten recitations in which thought connects with thought are supreme roots of goodness, and they immediately attain rebirth.' Again, it is like someone confronting the enemy to break their battle line, where the strength of a lifetime is exhausted in an instant. The goodness of the ten recitations is also like this. Furthermore, if a person at the point of death gives rise to a single thought of wrong view and a supreme evil mind, it can instantly overturn the merits of the three realms and plunge them directly into the evil destinies.