念佛鏡 2.113

2.113

象緯麗天，晃曜莫踰於桂魄；波瀾疏河，源流悉匯於滄溟。是以萬法唯心，功實存于一念；千車合轍，道不出乎總持。具最勝之妙門，脫輪迴之捷徑，其唯念佛乎？蓋自彌陀剎現，慈航超積劫之淪，淨土門開，法界結無遮之會。勢至念之而證圓通，能仁稱之而悲堪忍，大海會同歸，寶樹林中搖眾樂，十八賢共社，白蓮香裡顯真宗，悲、智雙行，聖、凡俱攝。蓋醫王護世，僊方道訣皆靡；慧日當空，黑室昏衢頓破。變世界為黃金，位登不退；坐蓮華而見佛，果證無生。譬夫九曲明珠，雖寸絲而可貫；百川眾味，甞一滴以皆通。欲枯業海，須念彌陀。彼教綱森羅，博之頗難契理；禪那寂照，修之恐涉岐途。豈若繫念彼佛，不勞彈指到西方？（如賢）欲弘法施，用廣是書，迺募貲於檀那，以重輝於剖劂，極知固陋，濫贅其文云。萬曆癸丑春眾華現瑞日，蓮山國歡崇福禪院釋子如賢和南謹識。

The constellations grace the heavens, yet no dazzling brilliance surpasses the lunar crescent; the surges carve out rivers, yet all currents converge into the vast dark sea. Therefore the ten thousand dharmas are mind-only, and merit truly resides in a single thought; a thousand carriages follow the same rut, and the Way does not stray from the dhāraṇī. Possessing the most supreme marvelous gateway, being the shortcut for escaping saṃsāra—is it not solely buddhānusmṛti? Indeed, since Amitābha's land appeared, the compassionate vessel has ferried across those sunken through accumulated kalpas; since the pure land gate opened, the dharmadhātu has formed an unhindered assembly. Mahāsthāmaprāpta practiced it and realized perfect penetration; the Benevolent One praised it and had compassion on [those in] the Sahā world. The great ocean-like assembly returns together, all kinds of music echoing through the groves of jeweled trees; the eighteen worthies joined together in fellowship, revealing the true school amid the fragrance of white lotuses. Compassion and wisdom are practiced in tandem; sages and ordinary beings are both gathered in. For when the king of physicians protects the world, all methods of immortals and recipes for the Way are superseded; when the sun of wisdom hangs in midsky, the dark room and dim paths are instantly broken open. It transforms the world into pure gold, and one attains the rank of an avaivartika; sitting on a lotus flower, one sees the Buddha, and its fruition verifies non-arising. It is like a winding pearl with nine bends, which may nonetheless be threaded with an inch of cord; or the many flavors of the hundred streams, which are all mastered by tasting a single drop. If you wish to dry up the ocean of karma, you must be mindful of Amitābha. The guidelines of the scriptures are dense and vast; pursuing them widely makes it very difficult to tally with the principle. Chan meditation is silent and illuminating; practicing it brings fear of straying into bifurcated paths. How could either compare to fixing thought upon that Buddha, reaching the West without the effort of a finger-snap? I, Ruxian, wishing to propagate the donation of the Dharma and thereby circulate this book widely, collected funds from donors to renew its brilliance upon the carved woodblocks. Knowing full well my own shallowness and vulgarity, I have presumptuously added this text. On an auspicious day when many flowers bloomed in the spring of the guichou year of the Wanli era [1613], the śramaṇa of the Buddha Ruxian of the Guohuan Chongfu Chan Monastery at Lianshan respectfully inscribed this with palms joined.