龍舒增廣淨土文 4.27

4.27

(An old edition says: 'On the fourteenth day of the fourth month of the yimao year of the Yanyou era [1315 CE], artisans were ordered to carve the printing blocks. On the first night of the tenth month, when carving reached this block, one śarīra emerged. On the seventh day, when carving reached the word fa [Dharma], another śarīra emerged. On the Xiayuan festival day, when carving reached the word sheng [Holy], yet another śarīra appeared. They remain preserved within the blocks, kept for veneration and offerings.' We respectfully hope that those who read this text and witness these miraculous responses will together give rise to a deep and firm faith, and please observe and practice according to it, surely to be born in the Pure Land. This is precisely what Layman Longshu meant when he said that practitioners from antiquity down to the present have been numerous; how could there be no stimulus and response! These words are doubly weighty.)