龍舒增廣淨土文 11.8

11.8

The words of Chan Master [Cijue] Ze above are found in the Chan master's *Collection of Exhortations*. The words of Great Master Zhizhe and Chan Master [Yongming Yan]shou are found in Vice Minister Wang Minzhong's *Collection Resolving Doubts and Pointing Directly to the Pure Land*, from the Song dynasty. The Vice Minister's given name was Gu. Among the gentry, he was recognized as a transcendent. The Realized Person Zhongli [Quan] once gave him a poem, saying: / 'The wind-blown lamp, the water's foam—each to each we grieve; / Unwilling to abandon worldly glory, how can one preserve oneself? / Seize boldly the pearl hidden beneath the jaw; / Since the Way is within your own body, whom else would you seek? / With your lofty talent you are truly suited to the bones of a transcendent; / Your luminous wisdom shines like the great precious tortoise. / For half of these blue mountains there is nowhere to buy; / I make a pact with you to walk hand in hand and discourse upon the Inaudible and Invisible.' / Viewed from this, one can see that the Vice Minister was no ordinary man; moreover, one knows all the more that the Western Pure Land is truly where one should turn one's heart.