樂邦文類 1.170

1.170

佛言：「其中輩人，雖不去家捨欲，當持經戒、分檀布施，常信佛語，欲生佛國。其人命終，自見阿彌陀佛。往至佛國，可得智慧勇猛。若人中悔，心中狐疑，不信分檀諸善得福、不信彌陀佛國往生。其人續念不絕，暫信暫不信，無所專據。續其善願為本，故得往生。其人壽終，不能得至阿彌陀佛所，便道見阿彌陀佛國界邊七寶城中，心大歡喜，便止其中，七寶水池蓮華化生。其城縱廣二千里，快樂如忉利天。不見彼佛，但見光明，心自悔責。其人於城中五百歲，乃得往至阿彌陀佛，聞經聞解。」

The Buddha said: "Those persons of the middle class, although unable to leave home and abandon desires, should uphold the sūtras and precepts, practice dāna and charity, constantly have faith in the Buddha's words, and desire to be born in the Buddha's land. At the end of his life, such a person will see Amitābha Buddha of himself. When he proceeds to the Buddha's land, he can attain courageous wisdom. If someone regrets midway, harbors doubts in his mind, does not believe that giving charity and performing various wholesome deeds yield blessings, and does not believe in rebirth in Amitābha Buddha's land—yet he continues mindfulness unbroken, sometimes believing and sometimes not believing, having nothing fixed to rely upon—because he maintains his wholesome vows as the foundation, he still attains rebirth. When this person's life ends, he is unable to reach the place of Amitābha Buddha, but on the way he sees a city of seven jewels on the border of Amitābha Buddha's realm. Greatly rejoicing in his mind, he settles inside it, being born by transformation within a lotus flower in a pond of seven jewels. That city is two thousand li in breadth, and its joy is like that of the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven. He does not see that Buddha, but sees only light, and his mind reproaches itself. After five hundred years in that city, this person is only then able to go to Amitābha Buddha to hear the sūtras and understand them."