樂邦文類 1.243

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佛告阿難：「一切世間生死相續，生從順習、死從變流。臨命終時未捨煖觸，一生善惡俱時頓現。純想即飛，必生天上。若飛心中兼福兼慧及與淨願，自然心開，見十方佛，一切淨土隨願往生。情少想多，輕舉非遠，即為飛仙。情想均等，不飛不墜，生於人間，想明斯聰、情幽斯鈍。情多想少，流入橫生，重為毛群、輕為羽族。七情三想，沈下水輪，生於火際，受氣猛火，身為餓鬼，常被焚燒，水能害己，無食無飲，經百千劫。九情一想，下洞火輪，輕生有間、重生無間，二種地獄。純情即沈入阿鼻獄。若沈心中，有謗大乘、毀佛禁戒、誑妄說法、虛貪信施、濫膺恭敬、五逆十重，更生十方阿鼻地獄。」

The Buddha told Ānanda: 'All worldly beings continue in birth and death; birth follows habitual tendencies, and death follows transforming flows. At the time when life is about to end, before the warm touch has dissipated, the good and evil of an entire lifetime all appear at once. Pure thought brings flight, leading inevitably to birth in heaven. If, within this flying mind, there is also merit, wisdom, and a pure vow, the mind will naturally open, one will see the Buddhas of the ten directions, and take rebirth according to one's vows in any pure land. With little emotion and much thought, one’s light flight is not far, and one becomes a flying immortal. With emotion and thought in equal measure, one neither flies nor falls, but is born in the human realm: when thought is clear, one is intelligent; when emotion is obscure, one is dull. With much emotion and little thought, one flows into the animal realm, the heavier into furred beasts, the lighter into winged birds. With seven parts emotion and three parts thought, one sinks beneath the water wheel, is born at the boundary of fire, receives the vapor of fierce flames, becomes a hungry ghost, is constantly burned, finds water harmful to oneself, and has neither food nor drink for hundreds of thousands of kalpas. With nine parts emotion and one part thought, one penetrates down into the fire wheel; if lighter, one is born in the hell with interval, and if heavier, in the hell of uninterrupted suffering—the two kinds of hells. Pure emotion causes one to sink directly into the Avīci Hell. If within this sinking mind there has been disparagement of the Mahāyāna, violation of the Buddha’s prohibitive precepts, deceptive preaching of the Dharma, empty grasping for donations from the faithful, improper reception of reverence, or the five rebellious acts and the ten grave offenses, one is further reborn in the Avīci Hells of the ten directions.'