[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) › [樂邦遺稿](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969b) › 1.104 # 樂邦遺稿 1.104 樂邦遺稿 1.104 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969b.1.104) 余觀澤公能出入生死不昧，頗為達者。雖然，亦以生死未盡之故，所以累經胎獄之苦也。竊甞聞：諸小教初果聖人為欲惑所牽，七返人間天上，次第受諸生死。故《大論》有「初果生屠兒家」之說。至二果位，猶有一來欲界生者。今詳澤師所為，為大乘上位權示生死如此耶？為小乘根性次第實受生死耶？若實小乘初果人，雖未出三界，其任運必出三界；雖未入大乘，其於方便土中必任運入大乘，固無可慮者。苟惟不然，則輪轉五道，方未有涯矣。然則生死之難出有如此者，較之淨土橫截徑路之修，可不加勉哉。 > In my view, Master Ze was able to enter and leave birth and death without confusion, so he was quite an enlightened person. Even so, it was also because birth and death had not yet been exhausted that he repeatedly underwent the suffering of the womb-prison. I have personally heard that the sages of the first fruition of the Lesser Teachings, pulled by the afflictions of desire, return seven times between the human and heavenly realms, successively undergoing various births and deaths. Hence the Dazhidulun contains the saying that 'one of the first fruition may be born in a butcher's house.' Reaching the stage of the second fruition, there is still one who returns once to be born in the desire realm. Now examining what Master Ze did: did he provisionally manifest birth and death like this as someone of a higher stage of the Mahāyāna, or did he actually undergo birth and death successively as one with the disposition of the Hīnayāna? If he was truly a person of the first fruition of the Hīnayāna, though he had not yet escaped the three realms, he would spontaneously escape the three realms; though he had not yet entered the Mahāyāna, he would spontaneously enter the Mahāyāna within the Land of Expedients, so there is certainly nothing to worry about. If that were not so, his revolving in the five paths would have no limit. Thus the difficulty of escaping birth and death is like this; compared to the cultivation of the shortcut of horizontally cutting across to the Pure Land, how could one not redouble one's efforts? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969b.1.103) - [Next: 1.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969b.1.105) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969b.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969b~en-mt.1.104) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969b.1.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969b.1.104) · Pramāṇa