龍舒增廣淨土文 12.48

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阿彌陀佛有大誓願云：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。現世可以消災解冤、增福保壽。每朝合掌向西，頂禮念南無阿彌陀佛、南無觀世音菩薩、南無大勢至菩薩、南無一切菩薩聲聞諸上善人，各十聲。復頂禮念大慈菩薩讚佛懺罪回向發願偈一遍「十方三世佛，阿彌陀第一，九品度眾生，威德無窮極。我今大歸依，懺悔三業罪，凡有諸福善，至心用回向。願同念佛人，感應隨時現，臨終西方境，分明在目前。見聞皆精進，共生極樂國，見佛了生死，如佛度一切。」復頂禮而退。此偈有大威力，能滅一切罪、長一切福，教人念得大福報。至誠如是，必中品生。更加精進，轉以化人，使更相勸化，則上品上生。罪惡人修，亦下品生。

Amitābha 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.' In the present life, one can dispel disasters, dissolve animosities, increase blessings, and preserve longevity. Every morning, join palms facing west, bow the head, and recite 'Namo Amitābha Buddha', 'Namo Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva', 'Namo Mahāsthāmaprāpta Bodhisattva', and 'Namo to all bodhisattvas, śrāvakas, and all superior good persons,' ten times each. Again bow the head and recite the verse of Great Compassion Bodhisattva praising the Buddha, repenting sins, and making dedications and vows once: 'Of the Buddhas of the ten directions and three periods of time, / Amitābha is the first. / Delivering sentient beings through the nine grades, / His awesome virtue is boundless. / I now take the great refuge, / Repenting the offenses of the three karmas; / Whatever blessings and goodness there may be, / With sincere mind I dedicate them. / May fellow practitioners of recollection of the Buddha / Experience stimulus and response manifesting at any time; / At the end of life, the scenery of the West / Will be clearly before our eyes. / May all who see and hear be diligent, / Together born in Sukhāvatī, / Seeing the Buddha to resolve birth and death, / And like the Buddha, deliver all beings.' Again bow the head and withdraw. This verse has great awesome power, capable of eliminating all sins and increasing all blessings; teaching others to recite it brings great blessed reward. Being sincere like this, one is sure to be born in the middle grade. If one is even more diligent and turns to transform others, causing them to encourage and transform one another, one will attain the highest rebirth of the highest grade. If evil and sinful persons cultivate it, they will also be born in the lowest grade.