[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [往生淨土決疑行願二門](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1968) › 1.12 # 往生淨土決疑行願二門 1.12 往生淨土決疑行願二門 1.12 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1968.1.12) 問：如上所明妙理圓極，為世人盡須觀行然始生耶？答：此不然也。今但直決疑情，令知淨土百寶莊嚴、九品因果，並在眾生介爾心中，理性具足方得今日往生事用，隨願自然，是則旁羅十方不離當念，往來法界正協唯心，免信常流執此非彼。其行願之相，正在次門，非此所問。況九品生相各有行類，上輩三品須解須行，故文云「汝行大乘，解第一義」，即其人矣。若今之學者見賢思齊，企金座而高升，唯妙觀而是託。若其中下之流六品生因，只是精持禁戒、行世仁慈，乃至下下品生本是惡逆，十念精誠便生彼國，但能知有淨土，盡可迴心。苟不然者，寧容九品之差降也（世人縱云淨土出大乘教，不能如上約教甄簡，寧逃混濫未足決疑）。 > Question: Since the wonderful principle explained above is supremely perfect, must all people in the world practice contemplation before they can finally be born? Answer: This is not so. Here we merely directly resolve doubts, so that people may know that the adornments of a hundred treasures and the causes and effects of the nine grades of the Pure Land are all within sentient beings' momentary minds; only because they are fully possessed in principle does the actual function of rebirth today occur naturally according to vows. Thus, embracing the ten directions does not depart from the present thought; going and coming across the dharmadhātu accords precisely with mind-only, avoiding the common flow of people who grasp at this and reject that. The marks of practice and vows belong precisely to the next gate and are not what is asked here. Moreover, the manifestations of rebirth in the nine grades each have their categories of practice. The three grades of the highest tier require understanding and practice; therefore the text says, "You practice the Mahāyāna and understand the primary truth"—such are those people. If scholars of today see worthies and think of equaling them, aspiring to ascend high to the golden seat, they rely solely on wonderful contemplation. As for the causal conditions for rebirth in the six grades of the middle and lower tiers, it is simply to strictly uphold the prohibitive precepts and practice worldly benevolence and kindness, down to the lowest of the low grade of rebirth, who were originally evil and rebellious, yet with the utmost sincerity of ten recitations are immediately born in that land. As long as one knows that the Pure Land exists, all can turn their minds. Were it not so, how could the gradations of the nine grades be permitted? (Even if worldly people say that the Pure Land emerges from the Mahāyāna teachings, if they cannot distinguish and select according to the teachings as above, how can they avoid confusion and conflation? It would not suffice to resolve doubts.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1968.1.11) - [Next: 1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1968.1.13) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1968.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1968~en-mt.1.12) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1968.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1968.1.12) · Pramāṇa