[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) › [遊心安樂道](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1965) › 1.6 # 遊心安樂道 1.6 遊心安樂道 1.6 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1965.1.6) 一切凡夫雖念佛，未至十解，體是退位。若在穢土，逢四退緣，即使退轉；若生西方，有四緣故，終不退還。言四緣者：一、由長命無病，故不退；穢土由短命多病，故退。二、由諸佛、菩薩圓善智識故不退，如經言：「得與如是諸上善人會一處故」；穢土由多惡知識故退也。三、由無有女人，六根境界並是進道緣，故不退，如經曰：「眼見色即發菩提心」等；穢土由有女人故退。四、由唯有善心，故不退，經云：「無毛端計造惡之地」；穢土由有惡心、無記心，故退也。又彼二經皆說：「其往生者，皆得不退。」不言但不退人乃得往生也，猶如此間具三受人，若生彼土，則無苦、捨，唯有樂受也。 > Although all ordinary beings may practice buddhānusmṛti, until they reach the ten abodes of understanding, their status is essentially that of retrogression. If in a defiled land, encountering four conditions for retrogression, they promptly retrogress; if born in the West, because of four conditions, they ultimately do not retrogress. As for the four conditions: first, due to long life and absence of illness, they do not retrogress; in the defiled land, due to short life and many illnesses, they retrogress. Second, due to the Buddhas and bodhisattvas who are perfectly wholesome spiritual friends, they do not retrogress, as the sūtra says: "Because one attains gathering in one place with such supreme wholesome persons"; in the defiled land, due to many evil companions, they retrogress. Third, due to the absence of women, and the objects of the six sense faculties all being conditions for progressing on the Path, they do not retrogress, as the sūtra says: "Seeing forms with the eyes, they immediately arouse the bodhicitta," and so on; in the defiled land, due to the presence of women, they retrogress. Fourth, due to having only wholesome minds, they do not retrogress, as the sūtra says: "There is not even a hair's-tip of ground where evil is committed"; in the defiled land, due to having unwholesome minds and indeterminate minds, they retrogress. Moreover, both of those two sūtras state: "Those who are reborn there all attain non-retrogression." They do not say that only persons of non-retrogression attain rebirth, just as a person here who has the three feelings, if born in that land, has no suffering or equanimity, but only feelings of pleasure. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1965.1.5) - [Next: 1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1965.1.7) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1965.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1965~en-mt.1.6) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1965.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1965.1.6) · Pramāṇa