念佛三昧寶王論 2.15

2.15

The question asks: “As for ‘this mind is Buddha,’ I have respectfully heard its principle. However, regarding the sixteen wonderful contemplations explained in this sūtra, when Vaidehī attained them, ice and the sun could be visualized, and the golden mountain shone brightly. When demonic light and buddha light, self-contemplation and other-contemplation, heterodox and orthodox are mixed together, how are they to be settled and made clear? Please explain them one by one, so that a practitioner of buddha-mindfulness, sitting alone away from a teacher, may have a mind as serene as the sea.”