遊心安樂道 1.97

1.97

「此等經文，往往而在，悔哉！罪業自造，苦果影追，痛哉！獨因獨厄，無人救護。自非同體大悲，弘濟祕術，誰能遠開幽鍵昇華臺？雖無他作自受之理，而有緣起難思之力。則知以遇呪沙即有緣，若不被沙，何論脫期？惟夫大悲無方，長舌無雜，不行、不信，後悔無反。然則不信用者，徒負厚恩，報日轉遠；有順行者，接魂華蓮，孝順便立。幸逢真言，令出不難，凡百君子，誰不奉行？散沙墓上，尚逝界，況乎呪衣著身，聆音誦字（矣）？」

"Passages such as these are found throughout the scriptures. How lamentable! Sinful karma is self-created, and its bitter fruit follows like a shadow. How agonizing! Bound by one's own causes to solitary distress, there is no one to provide rescue and protection. Were it not for the great compassion of identical essence and the secret arts of vast deliverance, who could open the dark locks from afar and ascend the lotus terrace? Although there is no principle that one can receive the fruit of what another has made, there is nonetheless the inconceivable power of dependent origination. Thus we know that by encountering the empowered sand, the conditions are established; if one is not touched by the sand, how can there be any talk of a time of deliverance? Indeed, great compassion has no fixed bounds, and the Buddha's broad and long tongue speaks without deceit. If one does not practice and does not believe, subsequent regret will be of no avail. Therefore, those who do not believe and apply it merely betray profound kindness, and the day of repaying it becomes ever more distant; for those who accord with it and practice, the soul is received upon a blooming lotus, and filial piety is immediately established. Having fortunately encountered this dhāraṇī, causing [the deceased] to escape is not difficult; among all noble gentlemen, who would not uphold and practice it? If scattering sand over a grave still leads to rebirth in that realm, how much more so empowering clothes to be worn on the body, or hearing its sound and reciting its syllables?"