[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) › 7.4 # 龍舒增廣淨土文 7.4 龍舒增廣淨土文 7.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.7.4) 宋朝有二青草堂，在前者年九十餘，有曾家婦人，甞為齋供及布施衣物，和尚感其恩乃言：「老僧與夫人作兒子。」一日此婦人生子，使人看，草堂已坐化矣，所生子即曾魯公也。以前世為僧，嘗修福修慧，故少年登高科。其後作宰相，以世俗觀之無以加矣。雖然，此亦誤也。何則？此世界富貴不長久，受盡則空，又且隨業緣去，輪迴無有了時。不如且生西方見佛了生死大事，却來作宰相，故雖入胞胎中受生，此一性已不昧，所以雖在輪迴世界中已不受輪迴，而生死去住自如矣。今未能了生死，乃念區區恩惠，為人作子，則不脫貪愛，永在輪迴，其失計甚矣。 > In the Song dynasty there were two monks named Qingcaotang. The earlier one lived past ninety. A woman of the Zeng family often provided him with vegetarian meals and donated clothing and goods. The Venerable was touched by her kindness and said: "This old monk will become madam's son." One day, when this woman gave birth to a son, she sent someone to look, and Caotang had already passed away while sitting. The son born to her was none other than Duke Zeng Lu. Because in his past life he had been a monk and had cultivated merit and wisdom, he passed the highest examinations at a young age. Later he became prime minister, which from a worldly viewpoint could not be surpassed. Even so, this too was a mistake. Why so? The wealth and honor of this world do not last; once exhausted, they come to nothing, and moreover one is swept away along with karmic conditions, with no end to transmigration. It would have been better to first be born in the Western \[Pure Land\], see the Buddha, resolve the great matter of birth and death, and then come back to serve as prime minister; then, although entering the womb to take birth, this single nature would not be obscured, and thus, although in the world of transmigration, one would no longer be subject to transmigration, and coming and going in birth and death would be at one's own will. Now, unable to resolve birth and death, he thought of petty kindnesses and became another's son, thereby failing to escape craving and love, remaining forever in transmigration. How great was his miscalculation! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.7.3) - [Next: 7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.7.5) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970~en-mt.7.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.7.4) · Pramāṇa