[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) › [樂邦文類](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969a) › 4.66 # 樂邦文類 4.66 樂邦文類 4.66 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969a.4.66) 問：見性悟道便超生死，何用念佛求生耶？答：通昧他心，聖凡安測，除非遍知，授記應難。真修行人，自當審察。諸仁者！汝觀自己見性悟道得入師位，能如馬鳴、龍樹否？得大三昧，能如南嶽、智者否？宗說俱通，能如忠國師、壽禪師否？此等諸師皆明垂言教、深切勸往。他豈誤人乎？況佛金口讚嘆叮嚀，昔賢恭稟佛誨，定不謬也。又當自度命終得去住自在否？無始惡業不現前否？捨此報身定脫輪迴否？三塗險道中出沒自由否？天上人間十方世界託生無礙否？若也了了自信得及，何幸如之。其或未然，竊勿貢高不修淨土。 > Question: Seeing one's nature and awakening to the Way, one immediately transcends birth and death. What use is there in practicing buddha-mindfulness and seeking rebirth? > Answer: When one's penetrative knowledge is obscured regarding the minds of others, how can one fathom sage or commoner? Unless one is all-knowing, conferring a prophecy of awakening would surely be difficult. A true practitioner should examine this oneself. Good people! When you look at your own seeing of nature and awakening to the Way to enter the position of a master, can you match Aśvaghoṣa or Nāgārjuna? In attaining the great samādhi, can you match Nanyue or the Wise One? In being thoroughly versed in both the doctrine and the teachings, can you match National Preceptor Zhong or Chan Master Shou? All these masters clearly handed down oral teachings and deeply and earnestly urged people to go. How could they deceive people? Furthermore, the Buddha's golden mouth praised and enjoined this; the former worthies reverently received the Buddha's instructions, which are certainly not mistaken. Moreover, you should judge for yourself: at the end of life, can you depart or remain with complete ease? Will your beginningless bad karma fail to appear before you? Setting aside this recompense body, will you definitely escape saṃsāra? Can you appear and disappear at will in the perilous paths of the three destinies? Can you take birth without obstruction in heaven, among humans, and throughout the worlds of the ten directions? If you are clearly and fully confident that you can, what fortune could equal it! But if this is not yet so, by no means be arrogant and fail to cultivate the Pure Land. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969a.4.65) - [Next: 4.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969a.4.67) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969a.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969a~en-mt.4.66) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969a.4.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969a.4.66) · Pramāṇa