觀念阿彌陀佛相海三昧功德法門 1.51

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又如《般舟三昧經》云，佛告跋陀和菩薩：「有三昧，名十方諸佛悉在前立。若欲疾得是三昧者，常當守習持，不得有疑想如毛髮許。若比丘、比丘尼、優婆塞、優婆夷欲行學是三昧者，七日七夜除去睡眠、捨諸亂想，獨一處止，念西方阿彌陀佛身真金色，三十二相光明徹照，端正無比。一心觀想、心念口稱念念不絕者」佛言：「七日已後見之。譬如有人夜觀星宿，一星即是一佛。若有四眾作是觀者，見一切星即見一切佛。」又以此經證，亦是彌陀佛三力外加故見佛。言三昧者，即是念佛行人心口稱念更無雜想，念念住心、聲聲相續，心眼即開，得見彼佛了然而現。即名為定，亦名三昧。正見佛時，亦見聖眾及諸莊嚴，故名見佛淨土三昧增上緣。

Furthermore, as the Pratyutpanna-buddha-saṃmukhāvasthita-samādhi-sūtra states, the Buddha addressed the bodhisattva Bhadrapāla: "There is a samādhi named 'All Buddhas of the Ten Directions Standing Before One.' If you wish quickly to attain this samādhi, you should constantly guard, practice, and maintain it, and must not have doubtful thoughts even as much as a hair. If monks, nuns, laymen, or laywomen wish to practice and learn this samādhi, for seven days and seven nights they should cast off sleep, abandon all distracted thoughts, dwell in a solitary place, and recollect the true golden body of Amitābha Buddha of the western direction, his thirty-two marks illuminating through and through, upright and incomparable. If with single mind they visualize, mentally recollect, and orally invoke, thought after thought without interruption—" The Buddha said: "—after seven days they will see him. It is just as when someone observes the stars at night: one star is one Buddha. If any among the fourfold assembly practice this contemplation, seeing all the stars, they will immediately see all the buddhas." Furthermore, as proved by this sūtra, seeing the Buddha is also due to the external addition of Amitābha Buddha's three powers. What is called samādhi is that the practitioner of buddhānusmṛti orally invokes and mentally recollects without any other mixed thoughts; thought after thought abiding in mind, sound after sound continuing, the eye of the mind then opens, and one attains the vision of that Buddha appearing clearly. This is named concentration, and it is also named samādhi. When truly seeing the Buddha, one also sees the holy assembly and all the adornments; therefore it is called the adhipati-pratyaya of the samādhi of seeing the Buddha and the Pure Land.