念佛鏡 1.20

1.20

詳夫圓成至覺，盡智海以無方；普應群機，破迷山而有路。慈音遍演，親聞者道證三空；妙義齊分，入信者心明八諦。施頓、漸之五乘，接聖、凡之二類。識其道者，便登常樂之鄉；迷其旨者，永溺輪迴之域。是以如來隨機授道，直指西方，開極樂之法門，顯慈尊之名號，故乃人、天共仰，凡、聖同歸。入華藏之要津，證泥洹之疾徑，行門省略，功德甚深。自古名賢盡依念佛，慧持、慧遠壽終，寶蓋迎將，道綽、道珍命盡，仙雲引去，或男、或女現祥瑞者，一一難陳，若僧、若尼感慈光者，重重無盡，傳記具明，不勞廣錄。

Examining it in detail: The fully perfected supreme enlightenment exhausts the ocean of wisdom without bounds; universally responding to the myriad capacities, it breaks through the mountain of confusion and provides a path. The compassionate voice is expounded everywhere, and those who hear it directly realize the three voids in the Way; the wonderful meanings are equally distinguished, and those who enter into faith have their minds illuminated by the eight truths. It dispenses the five vehicles of sudden and gradual, receiving the two kinds of [beings], holy and ordinary. Those who recognize its Way then ascend to the realm of eternal bliss; those who are confused about its purport are forever drowned in the sphere of transmigration. For this reason, the Tathāgata bestowed the Way according to capacity, pointing straight to the West, opening the dharma gate of Sukhāvatī, and revealing the name of the Compassionate Honored One; hence, humans and devas revere it together, and ordinary beings and sages return to it alike. It is the essential ford for entering the Lotus Treasury, the swift shortcut for realizing nirvāṇa; its gate of practice is concise, and its merit is profoundly deep. From antiquity, famous and worthy figures have all relied on buddhānusmṛti: when Huichi and Huiyuan ended their lifespans, jeweled canopies welcomed them; when Daochuo and Daozhen finished their lives, immortal clouds led them away. Whether men or women who manifested auspicious portents, each is hard to recount in detail; whether monks or nuns who were moved by the compassionate light, they are layer upon layer without end; their biographies make this fully clear, so there is no need to record them extensively.