遊心安樂道 1.58

1.58

"‘As for the middle rebirth of the lowest grade, there may be sentient beings who violate the five precepts, the eight precepts, or the complete precepts. Such foolish people steal the property of the saṅgha, steal the property of the present saṅgha, preach the Dharma with an impure mind, and lack shame and remorse, adorning themselves with various evil karmas. Such sinners, on account of their evil karma, should fall into hell. When they are about to die, the various fires of hell arrive all at once. They meet a good spiritual friend who, with great compassion, expounds for them the majestic virtues of Amitābha Buddha’s ten powers, expounds at length on that Buddha’s light and spiritual potency, and also praises precepts, samādhi, wisdom, liberation, and the knowledge and vision of liberation. When this person has heard this, the transgressions of birth and death of eighty billion kalpas are eradicated, and the raging fires of hell transform into a cool breeze that blows celestial flowers, upon each of which are transformation Buddhas and bodhisattvas coming to welcome him. In a single thought-moment, he immediately attains rebirth within a lotus flower in a pond of the seven jewels. After six kalpas have passed, the lotus flower blooms; Avalokiteśvara and Mahāsthāmaprāpta comfort that person with brahma sounds and expound profound Mahāyāna scriptures for him. Having heard this Dharma, he immediately generates the unexcelled mind of the Path. This is called the middle rebirth of the lowest grade.'