[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [龍舒增廣淨土文](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970) › 3.6 # 龍舒增廣淨土文 3.6 龍舒增廣淨土文 3.6 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.3.6) 人生時，父母妻子、屋宅田園、牛羊車馬，以至臺凳器皿、衣服帶索等物，不問大小，或祖父以傳於己、或自己營造而得、或子孫或他人為己緝累而得，色色無非己物。且如窓紙雖微，被人扯破猶有怒心；一針雖微，被人將去猶有吝心。倉庫既盈，心猶未足；金帛已多，營猶未止，舉眼動步無非愛著。一宿在外已念其家、一僕未歸已憂其失，種種事務無非掛懷。一旦大限到來，盡皆拋去。雖我此身，猶是棄物，況身外者乎？靜心思之，恍如一夢。故莊子曰「且有大覺，然後知此其大夢也。」古人有言：「一日無常到，方知夢裡人。萬般將不去，唯有業隨身。」妙哉此言也，予故用此後兩句添以兩句而成一偈云：萬般將不去，唯有業隨身；但念阿彌陀，定生極樂國。蓋業者，謂善業惡業，此皆將得去者，豈可不以淨土為業乎？有了明長老為眾普說，指此身而言曰：「此為死物，其內鱍鱍地者為活物。莫於死物上作活計，宜於活物上作活計。」余深愛此語，故常為人言之。凡貪種種外物以奉其身者，皆是死物上作活計也。世人雖未能免此，當於營生奉身之中挪頃刻之暇迴光自照，以留心於淨土，乃活物上作活計也。且如汲汲營生，雖致富如石崇貴極一品，終有數盡之期，豈若淨土之無盡也。 > During a person's life, parents, wife and children, houses and lands, cattle, sheep, carts and horses, down to tables, stools, utensils, garments, belts and cords—whether great or small, whether passed down from ancestors, acquired through one's own labor, or accumulated for one by children, grandchildren, or others—every single thing is taken as one's own property. Even if window paper is trivial, if someone tears it one still feels anger; even if a needle is trivial, if someone takes it away one still feels stinginess. When granaries and storehouses are full, the mind is still not satisfied; when gold and silk are abundant, enterprise still does not cease: everywhere one looks and with every step one takes, there is nothing but grasping attachment. Staying a single night away from home, one already worries about the household; when a servant has not returned, one already frets over their loss: every kind of affair occupies the mind. Once the great limit arrives, all of it is cast away. Even this body of mine is an abandoned thing, how much more so what is external to the body? Reflecting on it with a calm mind, it is just like a dream. Therefore Zhuangzi said: 'Only after there is a great awakening does one know that this is a great dream.' An ancient said: 'One day when impermanence arrives, one finally knows one was a person in a dream. Ten thousand things cannot be taken along; only karma accompanies the body.' How wonderful are these words! I therefore took the latter two lines and added two lines to make a verse: / Ten thousand things cannot be taken along; / Only karma accompanies the body. / Simply be mindful of Amitābha, / And you will surely be born in Sukhāvatī. / 'Karma' refers to good karma and evil karma; these are what can be taken along. How could one not take the Pure Land as one's karma? Elder Liaoming once preached to the assembly, pointing to this body and saying: 'This is a dead thing; that which is lively and spirited within it is the living thing. Do not make plans upon the dead thing; you ought to make plans upon the living thing.' I deeply love these words, and so I often speak them to others. All those who greedily seek various external things to sustain their bodies are making plans upon the dead thing. Although people of the world cannot yet avoid this, amidst managing their livelihoods and sustaining their bodies they ought to spare a moment's leisure to turn the light inward and reflect upon themselves, so as to set their minds on the Pure Land; this is to make plans upon the living thing. Moreover, even if one busily pursues a livelihood and attains wealth like Shi Chong or nobility at the very pinnacle of the first rank, there is ultimately an allotted end to it. How could it compare to the Pure Land's endlessness? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.3.5) - [Next: 3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.3.7) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970~en-mt.3.6) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.3.6) · Pramāṇa