淨土十疑論 1.51

1.51

信者萬善之母；疑者眾惡之根，能順其母，能耡其根，則向之所謂障緣眾生，聾可復聞、昧可復覺，未出生死得出生死，未生淨土得生淨土；順釋迦之誨往面彌陀，隨彌陀之願來助釋迦；在此而遍歷十方，即西而普入諸鏡。自二聖建立以來，如是之人，如河沙數，云何不信？云何而疑？能自信己，又作方便令諸未信無不信者，此則智者之所以為悲也。

Faith is the mother of the ten thousand wholesome deeds; doubt is the root of the myriad evils. If one can accord with the mother and uproot the root, then the aforementioned sentient beings with obstructing conditions, though deaf, can hear again, and though benighted, can awaken again; those who have not escaped birth and death can escape birth and death; those who have not been reborn in the pure land can be reborn in the pure land. According with Śākyamuni's instruction, one goes to face Amitābha; following Amitābha's vow, one comes to assist Śākyamuni. Abiding here, one traverses the ten directions; being in the west, one enters all the mirrors. Since the two sages established this, such persons have been as numerous as the sands of the Ganges. Why not believe? Why doubt? Being able to believe oneself, and further applying skillful means so that none among the unbelieving fail to believe—this is the compassion of Master Zhizhe.