釋淨土群疑論 5.42

5.42

問曰：如小乘四決擇分善根中，燸不受邪教、頂不斷善根、忍不生惡趣、世第一法必入聖道。此即至於下品忍位，方得惡趣非擇滅也。菩薩為利生，不受變易生死，猶自未得三惡趣非擇滅也。如何一生淨土，極惡凡夫一聲十聲稱念佛號，即得永絕三惡趣而不生也？

Question: In the four roots of good conducive to penetration of the Hīnayāna, at [the stage of] heat one does not receive false teachings; at the summit one does not sever roots of good; at patience one does not take birth in the evil destinies; and at highest worldly dharmas one definitely enters the noble path. This means that only upon reaching the lower grade of the stage of patience does one attain apratisaṃkhyā-nirodha regarding the evil destinies. Bodhisattvas, for the sake of benefiting beings, do not undergo inconceivable transformation-death, and yet still have not attained apratisaṃkhyā-nirodha regarding the three evil destinies. How is it that, once reborn in the pure land, an extremely evil pṛthagjana reciting the Buddha's name for one to ten recitations can immediately forever cut off the three evil destinies and never be reborn there?