龍舒增廣淨土文 12.34

12.34

藏經云：念此佛者現世消災保壽。此佛有大誓云：我作佛時，十方眾生至心信樂欲生我國，十聲念我名號而不生者，我不作佛。如每朝合掌向西，至誠念佛十聲，念上四句偈一遍，西方七寶池生蓮花一朵。他日於其中託生，衣食隨意化成，長生不老。龍舒淨土文說感應甚多。王日休勸予為西方二圖，願發大菩薩心者稍大寫刻板，小者印十、大者印一，小者循門而施、大者擇而與之，小者以勸僕妾之徒、大者以勸識字人。若能以全部刻板廣傳，其為福德不易量也。因附口業圖于後，若併以印施，使知所勸戒尤善。

The Canon states: 'Those who recite [the name of] this Buddha eliminate disasters and preserve lifespan in the present life.' This Buddha has a great vow stating: 'When I become a Buddha, if sentient beings in the ten directions with sincere mind, faith, and joy wish to be born in my land, and reciting my name ten times are not born there, I will not become a Buddha.' If every morning one joins palms facing west, recites the Buddha's name ten times with utmost sincerity, and recites the above four-line verse once, a lotus flower will grow in the seven-jeweled pond of the west. On another day one will be born relying upon it; clothing and food will spontaneously transform as one wishes, with longevity free from aging. Longshu's Pure Land Writings recounts very many stimulus-and-response accounts. Wang Rixiu urged me to produce two illustrations of the Western Paradise: wishing that those who generate the mind of a great bodhisattva carve printing blocks slightly larger; print ten copies of the small one and one copy of the large one; distribute the small one from door to door, and select recipients for the large one; use the small one to encourage servants and maids, and the large one to encourage literate people. If one can carve blocks of the complete text and broadly distribute it, the merit and virtue will not be easily measured. Hence I append the Illustration of Verbal Karma after this; if it is printed and distributed together, so people know what to encourage and admonish, it will be even better.