龍舒增廣淨土文 4.54

4.54

I have widely inspected the canonical scriptures, and there is no talk whatsoever of 'depositing into the treasury of the underworld.' I urge the people of the world to use the expenses spent on underworld deposits to invite monks to make offerings for the West; with single-minded focus on the West, one will certainly attain rebirth. If instead of doing this one makes underworld deposits, one's aspiration is set on the underworld, and upon death one will surely enter the underworld! It is like someone who, rather than practicing the conduct of a noble man to associate with the worthy and noble, deposits money with the jailer of the judicial office, waiting until he is cast into prison to use the money to avoid punishment. Is that not completely absurd!