龍舒增廣淨土文 11.8

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右賾禪師語，見禪師勸化集中。智者大師及壽禪師語，見宋朝王敏仲侍郎直指淨土決疑集中。侍郎名古，在搢紳間，為神仙所知。鍾離真人嘗與諸云：「風燈泡沫兩相悲，未肯遺榮自保持。頷下藏珠當猛取，身中有道更求誰？才高雅稱神仙骨，智照靈如大寶龜。一半青山無賣處，約君携手話希夷。」由此觀之，可見侍郎為非凡，且益知西方淨土所宜歸心也。

The words of Chan Master [Cijue] Ze above are found in the Chan master's *Collection of Exhortations*. The words of Great Master Zhizhe and Chan Master [Yongming Yan]shou are found in Vice Minister Wang Minzhong's *Collection Resolving Doubts and Pointing Directly to the Pure Land*, from the Song dynasty. The Vice Minister's given name was Gu. Among the gentry, he was recognized as a transcendent. The Realized Person Zhongli [Quan] once gave him a poem, saying: / 'The wind-blown lamp, the water's foam—each to each we grieve; / Unwilling to abandon worldly glory, how can one preserve oneself? / Seize boldly the pearl hidden beneath the jaw; / Since the Way is within your own body, whom else would you seek? / With your lofty talent you are truly suited to the bones of a transcendent; / Your luminous wisdom shines like the great precious tortoise. / For half of these blue mountains there is nowhere to buy; / I make a pact with you to walk hand in hand and discourse upon the Inaudible and Invisible.' / Viewed from this, one can see that the Vice Minister was no ordinary man; moreover, one knows all the more that the Western Pure Land is truly where one should turn one's heart.