樂邦遺稿 2.55

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《龍舒淨土文》曰「有真如喆禪師，名行尊宿也。住京師大剎，四十年坐禪不睡。歸寂後，雖紙襖亦出舍利。中貴愛樂，以三十千買之。禪師若修西方，必為不退轉菩薩矣。而不曾修此，死後乃生大富貴處，一生憂苦。可哀也哉。永嘉云：『了即業障本來空，未了應須還宿債。』喆之不了生死大事，生大富貴處，滿前生願心，而多憂苦者，還百生千世之宿債也。」

The Longshu Pure Land Writings says: "There was Chan Master Zhenru Zhe, an elder renowned for his practice. He resided in the great monasteries of the capital and sat in meditation without sleeping for forty years. After he passed into extinction, even his paper jacket produced relics (śarīra). Palace eunuchs cherished them and bought them for thirty strings of cash. Had this Chan Master cultivated for the West, he would surely have become an irreversible bodhisattva. Yet he never cultivated this, and after death he was born into a family of great wealth and nobility, spending his life in anxiety and suffering. How lamentable! Yongjia said: 'When enlightened, karmic obstacles are fundamentally empty; / when not enlightened, one must repay former debts.' Zhe did not resolve the great matter of birth and death, was born into a family of great wealth and nobility, fulfilled his past vow, and yet had much anxiety and suffering; he was repaying the former debts of hundreds of lifetimes and thousands of generations."