釋淨土群疑論 6.45

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釋曰：有二釋。一言：計五逆等愆，只合六劫受罪。然有九八十億劫罪者，以此人造茲重罪，長養過去諸餘業皆令有力，能招九八十億劫生死之報。如一念瞋心現前，能燒一切善法，能障百千法門也。此亦如是，造此重罪，能增過去惡業皆有力勢，能感惡報，障生淨土也。二釋：此五逆罪，唯感五劫受苦。然謗法罪，經說受苦劫數長遠，如《大品經》及《佛藏經》說，謗法人墮此阿鼻地獄，此間劫壞更生他方地獄中，如是展轉經無數劫。故須十聲稱佛滅八十億劫重罪，得生淨土也。

I explain: there are two explanations. One says: if one calculates the faults of the five heinous sins and so on, they should only entail receiving retributions for six kalpas. Yet that there are transgressions of eighty or ninety billion kalpas is because when this person creates these heavy transgressions, they nourish all remaining past karma, making them all powerful and capable of incurring the retributions of saṃsāra for eighty or ninety billion kalpas. Just as a single thought-moment of anger manifesting before one can burn up all wholesome dharmas and obstruct hundreds of thousands of Dharma-doors, so too is this: creating these heavy transgressions can increase the strength of all past evil karma, causing them to induce evil retributions and obstruct birth in the pure land. The second explanation: these five heinous sins only induce suffering to be experienced for five kalpas. However, regarding the transgression of slandering the Dharma, the sūtras state that the number of kalpas of suffering experienced is prolonged. As stated in the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra and the Buddhapiṭaka Sūtra, persons who slander the Dharma fall into this Avīci Hell; when this kalpa is destroyed, they are reborn into hells in other directions, circulating in this way through countless kalpas. Therefore, it is necessary to utter the Buddha['s name] ten times to extinguish eighty billion kalpas of heavy transgressions and attain birth in the pure land.