釋淨土群疑論 5.25

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釋曰：此四種八種業，佛於九部不了教中，為諸不信業果凡夫密意說言有定報對；於諸大乘了義教中，說一切業悉皆不定。如《涅槃經》第十九卷云「耆婆為阿闍世王說懺悔法，罪得滅。又臣聞佛說修一善心能破百種惡，如少毒藥能害眾生。少善亦爾，能破大惡。」又三十一云「善男子！有諸眾生於業緣中心輕不信，為度彼故作如是說。善男子！一切作業有輕有重，輕重二業復各有二，一決定、二不決定。」又言「或有重業可得作輕，或有輕業可得作重。有智之人以智慧力，能合地獄極重之業現世輕受，愚癡之人現世輕業地獄重受。」阿闍世王懺悔罪已不入地獄，鴦崛摩羅得阿羅漢。《瑜伽論》說「未得解脫名決定業，已得解脫名不定業。」如是等諸大乘經論，咸說五逆罪等皆名不定業，悉得消滅。今《觀經》既是大乘經典，明念阿彌陀佛五逆罪滅，有何疑也？

I explain: Regarding these four and eight kinds of karma, within the neyārtha teachings of the nine divisions, the Buddha, with intentional meaning for ordinary people who do not believe in karma and its fruit, spoke of determinate retributions. In the nītārtha teachings of the Mahāyāna, all karmas are spoken of as entirely indeterminate. As the nineteenth fascicle of the Nirvāṇa Sūtra says: 'Jīvaka expounded the method of confession for King Ajātaśatru, and his sins were extinguished. Moreover, your minister has heard the Buddha say: cultivating a single wholesome thought can destroy a hundred kinds of evil, just as a little poison can harm sentient beings; a little good is also like this, capable of destroying great evil.' Furthermore, the thirty-first [fascicle] says: 'Good son! There are sentient beings who take karma and conditions lightly and do not believe; for the sake of delivering them, I spoke in this way. Good son! All actions committed have light and heavy. Both light and heavy karma further have two types: first, determinate; second, indeterminate.' It also says: 'There may be heavy karma that can be made light, or light karma that can be made heavy. A person of wisdom, through the power of wisdom, can cause the extremely heavy karma of hell to be experienced lightly in the present life; an ignorant person causes light karma of the present life to be experienced heavily in hell.' King Ajātaśatru, having confessed his sins, did not enter hell, and Aṅgulimāla attained arhatship. The Yogācārabhūmi says: 'What has not attained liberation is called determinate karma; what has attained liberation is called indeterminate karma.' Various such Mahāyāna sūtras and treatises all state that the five rebellious sins and so forth are all called indeterminate karma, and all can be eliminated. Now, since the Guan jing is a Mahāyāna scripture and clarifies that through reciting Amitābha the sins of the five rebellious acts are extinguished, what doubt can there be?