廬山蓮宗寶鑑 3.6

3.6

夫滔滔智海，茫茫莫究其涯；淼淼真源，蕩蕩罕尋其際。遮那法界，體相總括於塵沙；方廣靈門，淨穢互參於無極。但隨現修業用、見境不同，致使聖境乖違、依根不定，或權分淨土於它國、指穢境於娑婆，或此處為化儀、示上方為實報，文殊居東國金色世界而來、觀音處西方安樂妙土而至，如是權儀各別、啟蒙的信無依。今以略會諸門，令使創修有托，約申十種以定指南。

Now, the surging ocean of wisdom is vast and boundless, its shores impossible to fathom; the overflowing true source is immense and wide, its margins rarely to be found. The Vairocana dharmadhātu gathers all substances and characteristics within the dust and sands; the wondrous gate of the broad and wide accommodates the pure and defiled mutually interpenetrating into the limitless. Merely following the functions of karma presently cultivated, the realms seen differ, causing the sacred realms to vary and their bases to be unfixed. Some provisionally divide the Pure Land into another realm and point to the defiled realm in Sahā; some regard this place as a transformed display and show the higher realms as the true reward. Mañjuśrī arrives dwelling in the Golden World of the eastern realm, and Avalokiteśvara arrives residing in the Western Wondrous Land of Peace and Joy. Since such expedient forms are each distinct, those who are just beginning have no definite faith to rely upon. Now, by briefly harmonizing the various gates so that those beginning practice have something to rely upon, ten kinds are roughly set forth to establish a guiding compass.