龍舒增廣淨土文 7.19

7.19

Ignorance means the obscuration of the true nature; action means movements; consciousness means the conscious spirit. (Those written in long lines are the Diagram of the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination; those written in short lines are the Diagram of the Three Realms and Six Destinies.) From the Great Avīci Hell up to the Heaven of Controlling Others' Emanations are all called the Desire Realm, because they have desires. Above this is the Form Realm, which has only form bodies without male and female gender forms. Above this again is the Formless Realm, which also lacks a form body and has only the conscious spirit, like ghosts and spirits. These are collectively called the three realms. Observing this, how could one be deluded by other paths and not cultivate [rebirth in] the West? / Name means feeling, perception, impulse, and consciousness; form means the physical body; the six entrances mean the six sense faculties. Contact means that which touches the six sense faculties. Because the true nature is obscured, it cannot remain tranquil and motionless, thereby generating the conscious spirit. Because there is name-and-form, there are consequently the six entrances; because of the six entrances, there is contact; because of contact, there is feeling; because of feeling, there is craving; because of craving, there is grasping; because of grasping, there is perpetual existence; because of this, one again undergoes birth. Because of birth, there is old age and death. Linked in this succession without interruption, they are called the twelve links.