龍舒增廣淨土文 5.24

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啟芳、圓果二法師，精心觀想淨土。後五月於觀想中，同覺身臨七寶大池，池間有大寶帳，身入其中。見觀音、勢至坐二大寶蓮華，下有蓮華彌滿千萬。阿彌陀佛從西來，坐一最大蓮華，迭出光明相照。芳等禮佛，問云：「閻浮眾生依經教念佛，得生此否？」佛云：「如念我名，皆生我國。無有一人念而不生者。」又見其國，地平如掌，寶幢珠網上下間錯。又有一僧，乘寶車逐遠而來，謂芳等：「吾法藏也。以宿願因，故來迎汝。」芳等乘車前往，又覺其身坐寶蓮華，又聞釋迦佛與文殊菩薩稱讚淨土。其前又有大殿，殿有三道寶階，第一道純是白衣，第二道僧俗相半，第三道唯僧無俗。佛指之謂芳等云：「此皆南閻浮提念佛眾生，遂生於此。汝宜自勉。」芳果既寤，歷與其徒言之。後五月，二人無病，遽聞鐘聲，他人不聞。芳果云：「鍾聲乃我事。」頃刻二人同終。

The two Dharma Masters Qifang and Yuanguo concentrated their minds on contemplating the Pure Land. After five months, during their contemplation, they both felt their bodies approaching a great seven-jeweled pond. In the pond was a great jeweled pavilion-canopy, and their bodies entered it. They saw Avalokiteśvara and Mahāsthāmaprāpta seated on two great jeweled lotus flowers, below which were lotus flowers filling everything by the tens of millions. Amitābha Buddha came from the west, seated on the largest lotus flower, alternately emitting bright light that shone back and forth. Qifang and the other bowed to the Buddha and asked, "Do the sentient beings of Jambudvīpa who rely on the scriptures and teachings to recollect the Buddha attain rebirth here?" The Buddha said, "If they recite my name, all are reborn in my land. There is not a single person who recites it and is not reborn." They also saw that that land was as flat as the palm of a hand, with jeweled banners and pearl nets interlaced above and below. Further, there was a monk riding a jeweled carriage coming from afar, who told Qifang and the other, "I am Dharmākara. Because of the cause of my past vows, I have come to welcome you." Qifang and the other rode the carriage forward, and again felt their bodies seated on jeweled lotus flowers, and also heard Śākyamuni Buddha and Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva praising the Pure Land. In front of them there was also a great palace hall with three flights of jeweled steps: the first flight was purely laypeople in white robes; the second flight was half monastics and half laypeople; the third flight was monastics only, with no laypeople. The Buddha pointed to them and told Qifang and the other, "These are all sentient beings of Southern Jambudvīpa who recollected the Buddha and were consequently born here. You should urge yourselves on." After Qifang and Yuanguo awoke, they related all this in detail to their disciples. Five months later, neither of the two was sick when they suddenly heard the sound of a bell, which others did not hear. Qifang and Yuanguo said, "The bell's sound is our affair." In a moment, the two passed away together.