廬山蓮宗寶鑑 10.50

10.50

切惟最初一念，元從淨土中來。泊沒多生，未脫娑婆世界。幸逢蓮社、得遇正宗，仰藉三寶餘庥、感沐導師化育，伏為教門之下，多有錯路修行。嗟信心盡作魔民、致良善俱遭邪墜，正因泯絕、慧命難存，反招謗法深愆，豈有誦持功德？覩斯境界以長吁，痛切身心而不忍，是乃搜大藏之要旨用證本宗，掃百家之是非開明大道，並是依經辨理、顯正摧邪、照了無私，故名寶鑑。俾夫後學照心目而妍醜自知，導彼迷途達家鄉而免諸流浪。是集克就，鄙志當陳，百拜祖庭，重申大誓，告白十方諸佛諸大祖師，望賜慈光證明祈禱。普度敬自發心立願，照依所集蓮宗寶鑑篇字數，一字三禮，每一禮念楞嚴呪心一遍，三稱南無觀世音菩薩尊號。望悲心而憐憫，賜法力以冥加，俾魔外以歸依，冀真乘之流布，與彼盲瞑開眼目、於諸病苦作良醫，昏衢黑暗之中為燈為燭、苦海洪波之內為舟為航，危險處作大橋梁、迷路中示其正道，普為十方蓮社諸上善人，同期懺滌於身心，各願消除於業障，非法說法之咎、法說非法之愆，一智能滅萬年愚、一燈能破千年暗，妄意消而空花滅、正信生而淨行彰，信禮彌陀普同回向。與諸大眾並從今日發菩提，盡於未來永劫常行菩薩道，離非梵行、遠邪見師。願盡此報身，同生安養國。常修六念及六波羅、廣運四心與四弘誓，發四十八願如阿彌陀、得念佛三昧如大勢至，修普賢之行願、等觀音之慈悲，學大智慧如文殊、次登補處如彌勒，頓入法界圓證上乘。分身遍至於十方、大悲普度於一切，建法幢、立宗旨、耀慧日、除癡冥，諸魔外道悉歸降、匝地普天皆嚮化。辯才無礙、廣利塵沙，威德無邊、拯濟含識，父母師長俱登解脫之門、累劫怨親盡出沈淪之海。伏望覩是集者起護法心，蕩歷劫之迷情、破千重之疑網，頓豁正眼、明悟本心，淨土道場不動足到、西方大聖如對目前，萬法了然妙在茲也。惟冀天龍歡喜，聞正法以護持；凡聖歸依，掃邪風而絕迹。弘揚祖道、廣播宗風，融大千同為清泰之邦、俾四海共樂無為之化，正見邪見盡入無生、皇恩、佛恩一時等報。虛空界盡、眾生界盡、眾生業盡、眾生煩惱盡，我願乃盡。而虛空界乃至眾生界煩惱不可盡故，我此願王無有窮盡。念念相續無有間斷，身語意業無有疲厭。普賢菩薩發願如是，諸大祖師發願亦如是，我今發願亦如是，普為蓮社大眾發願亦如是，盡未來際一切情與無情發願亦如是。如是如是，無不如是。願同如是恒沙眾，盡入如來願海中。

I humbly consider that the very first thought originally comes from the Pure Land. Sunken and drifting through many lifetimes, one has yet to escape the Sahā world. Fortunately encountering the Lotus Society and meeting the authentic tradition, looking up and relying on the remaining shelter of the Three Jewels, and receiving the transforming nurture of the Guide, I humbly observe that under the teachings, many cultivate on mistaken paths. Alas! Those with faithful minds all become demonic minions, causing the virtuous to suffer heterodox falls; the correct cause is wiped out, and the life of wisdom can hardly survive. Instead, they incur the grave sin of slandering the Dharma—how could there be any merit from recitation and retention? Beholding such a state, I sigh deeply; pained to the core of body and mind, I cannot bear it. It is for this reason that I have gathered the essential tenets of the Great Canon to verify our fundamental school, swept away the disputes of the hundred schools to illuminate the great path, all relying on the scriptures to analyze principles, revealing the correct and crushing the heterodox, shining impartially—hence it is named the Precious Mirror. May it cause later students to reflect upon their own minds and eyes, naturally distinguishing the fair from the foul, and guide those who have lost their way to reach their homeland and avoid wandering. As this collection is completed, my humble intent should be stated: bowing a hundred times to the ancestral hall, I reiterate a great vow, declaring to the buddhas and great patriarchs of the ten directions, hoping they will grant their compassionate light to verify and witness my prayer. I, Pudu, respectfully and spontaneously generate the mind and make the vow: following the number of characters in the chapters of the compiled Lotus School Precious Mirror, for each character I make three prostrations, and with each prostration recite the Heart-mantra of the Śūraṅgama-dhāraṇī once and invoke the venerable name of Namo Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva three times. Looking up to your compassionate mind for pity and empathy, granting the Dharma power of hidden assistance, may demons and heterodoxies take refuge, and may the true vehicle be disseminated: opening eyes for the blind, acting as a fine physician for the sick and suffering, serving as a lamp and torch amid dark paths of obscurity, serving as a boat and raft within the vast waves of the sea of suffering, making a great bridge at perilous places, showing the correct path amidst lost roads. Universally for all superior virtuous persons of the lotus societies in the ten directions, may we together repent and cleanse body and mind, and each vow to eliminate karmic obstacles. As for the fault of preaching the non-Dharma as Dharma and the error of preaching the Dharma as non-Dharma, a single spark of wisdom can extinguish ten thousand years of folly, and a single lamp can shatter a thousand years of darkness. Deluded thoughts dissipate and sky-flowers vanish; correct faith arises and pure conduct becomes manifest. Faithfully bowing to Amitābha, I universally dedicate this merit: together with the great assembly, from this day forward generating bodhi, throughout all kalpas of the future ever practicing the bodhisattva path, leaving behind non-brahmacarya, staying far from teachers of wrong views. We vow that when this retribution body is exhausted, we will be born together in the land of Sukhāvatī. Ever cultivating the six recollections and the six pāramitās, broadly exercising the four [immeasurable] minds and the four great vows, making forty-eight vows like Amitābha, attaining buddhānusmṛti-samādhi like Mahāsthāmaprāpta, practicing the conduct and vows of Samantabhadra, equaling the compassion of Avalokiteśvara, learning great wisdom like Mañjuśrī, next ascending to the position of succession like Maitreya, suddenly entering the dharmadhātu and fully realizing the supreme vehicle. May our emanated bodies reach everywhere throughout the ten directions, with great compassion universally saving all, erecting the Dharma banner, establishing the fundamental tenets, radiating the sun of wisdom, and dispelling ignorant darkness, so that all demons and heterodoxies completely surrender and submit, and all across the earth and under heaven turn toward transformation. With unobstructed eloquence, broadly benefiting beings numerous as dust and sand; with boundless majestic virtue, rescuing sentient beings; may parents, teachers, and elders all ascend the gate of liberation, and may enemies and kin of accumulated kalpas all emerge from the ocean of sinking and drowning. I humbly hope that those who behold this collection will give rise to the mind of protecting the Dharma, sweep away the deluded passions of successive kalpas, break through the thousandfold net of doubt, suddenly open their correct eye, and clearly awaken to their fundamental mind: reaching the bodhimanda of the Pure Land without moving a foot, and having the great Sage of the West appear as if right before their eyes. The ten thousand dharmas will be clearly understood—the marvelous lies right here. I only hope that devas and dragons will rejoice, hearing the correct Dharma and protecting it; that ordinary beings and sages will take refuge, sweeping away heterodox winds and eradicating their traces. Propagating the ancestral path, broadly broadcasting the style of our school, blending the great chiliocosm into the land of pure peace, causing the four seas to jointly delight in non-action transformation; may right views and wrong views all enter into the unborn, and may imperial benevolence and the Buddha's benevolence be repaid equally at once. When the realm of space is exhausted, when the realms of sentient beings are exhausted, when the karmas of sentient beings are exhausted, and when the afflictions of sentient beings are exhausted, only then will my vow be exhausted. Yet because the realm of space up to the afflictions of the realms of sentient beings can never be exhausted, this vow king of mine shall have no end. Thought after thought succeeding without interruption, in body, speech, and mind karma without weariness. As Bodhisattva Samantabhadra made vows, as all the great patriarchs made vows, so do I now make vows, so do I universally make vows on behalf of the great assembly of the lotus society, and so do I make vows on behalf of all sentient and insentient beings to the end of the future. Thus, thus, none are not thus. May we, together with such beings as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, all enter the ocean of the Tathāgata's vows.