往生淨土決疑行願二門 1.36

1.36

「我弟子（某甲），一心歸命極樂世界阿彌陀佛。願以淨光照我、慈誓攝我。我今正念稱如來名經十念頃，為菩提道求生淨土。佛昔本誓，若有眾生欲生我國，至心信樂乃至十念，若不生者不取正覺，唯除五逆誹謗正法。我今自憶此生已來，不造逆罪、不謗大乘，願此十念得入如來大誓海中，承佛慈力眾罪消滅、淨因增長。若臨欲命終，自知時至，身不病苦、心無貪戀，心不倒散如入禪定，佛及聖眾手持金臺來迎接我，如一念頃生極樂國，華開見佛即聞佛乘，頓開佛慧廣度眾生滿菩提願。」（作此願已，便止不必禮拜。要盡此一生，不得一日暫廢。唯將不廢，自要其心，得生彼國）

"I, disciple [so-and-so], single-mindedly take refuge in Amitābha Buddha of the Sukhāvatī world. I pray that you shine your pure light upon me and gather me in with your compassionate vow. I now, in right mindfulness, recite the Tathāgata's name for the duration of ten recitations, seeking rebirth in the Pure Land for the sake of the path to bodhi. The Buddha's original vow in the past was: 'If there are sentient beings who wish to be born in my land with sincere faith and joy, even down to ten recitations, if they should not be born there, may I not attain correct enlightenment, excluding only those who commit the five heinous crimes or slander the True Dharma.' I now recall of myself that from this life forward, I have not committed heinous crimes nor slandered the Mahāyāna; may these ten recitations enter the great ocean of the Tathāgata's vows, and relying on the Buddha's compassionate power, may all sins be extinguished and pure causes increase. When approaching the end of life, may I naturally know the time has arrived, the body free from painful illness, the mind free from craving and attachment, the mind neither inverted nor scattered as if entering dhyāna-absorption; and may the Buddha and the noble assembly, holding a golden dais in hand, come to welcome me, so that in the space of a single thought-moment I may be born in the Sukhāvatī land, see the Buddha when the flower opens, immediately hear the Buddha vehicle, instantly open Buddha-wisdom, broadly deliver sentient beings, and fulfill the vow of bodhi." (Having made this vow, one then stops; prostrations are not necessary. It must be maintained throughout one's entire life, not to be abandoned for even a single day. Only by not abandoning it and firmly committing one's mind can one attain rebirth in that land.)