樂邦遺稿 1.88

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Lord Huang Yue of Wuxing once carved and printed the Tiantai Treatise on the Ten Doubts. He wrote at its end: 'The ancients, pressed hard by fear in their minds, shot arrows that penetrated stone; inflamed with furious energy, they struck mountains and water gushed forth. When sincerity comes from within, even insentient things can be moved. How much more so when tearing through the web of doubt, consolidating the root of faith, and exerting vigor in buddhānusmṛti-samādhi without changing! Although the Pure Land is distant, rebirth is certainly attained. Yet worldly people are divided half between doubt and faith. For this reason, I have gathered Zhizhe's questions and answers, arrayed the preface of Wuwei, and carved and printed them for widespread distribution, in order to broadly disseminate them and assist my good friends in holding steadfastly to faith.'