龍舒增廣淨土文 6.20

6.20

長蘆賾禪師作孝友文百二十篇，前百篇言奉養甘旨為世間之孝，後二十篇言勸父母修淨土為出世間之孝。蓋世間之孝一世而止，猶為孝之小者。出世間之孝無時而盡，以父母生淨土，福壽不止如恒河沙劫，此莫大孝也。父母存而不能以此勸勉，他日徒傷其心，徒為厚禮亦何益乎？若又能轉以化人，使更相勸化，以此功德資父母之福壽、厚父母之善報。佛不阻眾生之願，此意必可遂矣。上品上生者，先言孝養父母，吾能推是心以為孝養，其往生品第可見矣。

Chan Master Changlu Ze composed one hundred and twenty essays on filial piety and brotherly love. The first hundred essays speak of serving delicacies to one's parents as worldly filial piety; the latter twenty essays speak of exhorting one's parents to cultivate the Pure Land as supramundane filial piety. Worldly filial piety ends with a single lifetime and is still a minor filial piety. Supramundane filial piety never ends at any time, for when parents are born in the Pure Land, their blessings and longevity do not merely equal the kalpas of the sands of the Ganges; this is the greatest filial piety. If one fails to exhort and encourage them with this while one's parents are alive, later on one will vainly break one's heart, and what benefit will there be in vainly holding lavish ceremonies? If one can also turn around to transform others, causing them to exhort and transform one another in turn, using this merit to support one's parents' blessings and longevity and enrich one's parents' wholesome retribution, the Buddhas do not thwart the vows of sentient beings, so this intention will certainly be fulfilled. Concerning those who attain the highest grade of the highest grade, the text first speaks of filial support for parents; if we can extend this mind as filial support, the grade of rebirth is readily evident.