[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [釋淨土群疑論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1960) › 4.7 # 釋淨土群疑論 4.7 釋淨土群疑論 4.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1960.4.7) 釋曰：只由此經有斯言教，故善導禪師勸諸四眾專修西方淨土業者，四修靡墜、三業無雜，廢餘一切諸願諸行，唯願唯行西方一行。雜修之者，萬不一生；專修之人，千無一失。即此經下文言「何以故？皆由懈慢執心不牢固。」是知雜修之者，為執心不牢之人，故生懈慢國也，正與《處胎經》文相當。若不雜修，專行此業，此即執心牢固，定生極樂國，妙符隨願往生經旨。經言「娑婆世界人多貪濁，信正者少、習邪者多、不信正法，不能專一、心亂無志。」實十方淨土無差別，令諸眾生專心有在，是故讚嘆彼國土耳。諸往生者，悉隨彼願無不獲果。故知雜其行，墮於懈慢之邦；專其業，生於安樂之國。斯乃更顯淨門專行而得往生，豈是彼國難往而無生勗哉。學徒不可不專其道也。又報淨土生者極少，化淨土中生者不少，故經別說，實不相違也。 > Explanation: It is precisely because this sūtra has this teaching that Chan Master Shandao encouraged the fourfold assembly to exclusively cultivate the karma for the Western Pure Land, ensuring that the four practices do not lapse and the three actions are unmixed, setting aside all other vows and practices, solely vowing and solely practicing the one cultivation for the West. For those who practice in a mixed way, not one in ten thousand will be born; for those who practice exclusively, not one in a thousand will fail. In the subsequent text of this very sūtra, it says: 'Why is this? It is all due to indolence and the mind of resolve not being firm.' Thus we know that those who engage in mixed cultivation are those whose resolve is not firm, and therefore they are born in the Land of Indolence; this accords precisely with the passage in the Bodhisattvagarbhastha Sūtra. If one does not engage in mixed cultivation but exclusively practices this karma, then one's resolve is firm, and one will definitely be born in the Land of Sukhāvatī, wonderfully corresponding to the intent of the sūtra on rebirth according to one's vow. The sūtra says: 'The people of the Sahā world are mostly greedy and defiled; those who believe in the correct are few, those who practice the perverse are many; they do not believe in the true Dharma, cannot be single-minded, and their minds are distracted and lacking resolve.' In reality, the pure lands of the ten directions are without distinction; it is only to cause all beings to focus their minds on one place that that land is praised. All who are reborn follow their vows and none fail to obtain the fruit. Thus we know that mixing one's practices leads to falling into the realm of indolence, while making one's karma exclusive leads to birth in the Land of Peace and Bliss. This even more clearly shows that through exclusive practice of the Pure Land gate one attains rebirth; how could it mean that that land is difficult to reach and that there is no encouragement for rebirth? Students must not fail to be exclusive in their path. Furthermore, those born in the reward pure land are extremely few, while those born in the transformation pure land are not few; thus the sūtra speaks of them separately, and in truth there is no contradiction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1960.4.6) - [Next: 4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1960.4.8) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1960.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1960~en-mt.4.7) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1960.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1960.4.7) · Pramāṇa