廬山蓮宗寶鑑 8.21

8.21

《首楞嚴經》云「佛告阿難：『一切世間生死相續，生從順習、死從變流。臨命終時未捨煖觸，一生善惡俱時頓現，純想即飛必生天上。若飛心中兼福兼慧及與淨願，自然心開，見十方佛一切淨土，隨願往生。情少想多，輕舉非遠，即為飛仙。情想均等，不飛不墜，生於人間。想明斯聰，情幽斯鈍。情多想少，流入橫生，重為毛群、輕為羽族。七情三想，沈下水輪，生於火際，受氣猛火，身為餓鬼常被焚燒，水能害己無食無飲，經百千劫。九情一想，下洞火輪，輕生有間、重生無間二種地獄。純情即沈入阿鼻獄。若沈心中有謗大乘、毀佛禁戒、誑妄說法、虛貪信施、濫膺恭敬、五逆十重，更生十方阿鼻地獄。』」

The Śūraṅgama-sūtra states: "The Buddha said to Ānanda: 'Birth and death in all worlds continue without interruption: birth follows habitual tendencies, and death follows transformation and flow. At the time of death, before one has shed the touch of warmth, the wholesome and unwholesome deeds of a lifetime all appear at once. One of pure contemplative thought will soar, and will certainly be born in heaven. If, within this soaring mind, there are conjoined blessings, conjoined wisdom, and pure vows, one's mind will naturally open and one will see the buddhas of the ten directions and all pure lands, attaining rebirth according to one's vows. With little emotion and much contemplative thought, one will rise lightly but not far, becoming a flying immortal. With emotion and contemplative thought in equal balance, one neither flies nor sinks, being born among humans. Where contemplative thought is bright, one is intelligent; where emotion is murky, one is dull. With much emotion and little contemplative thought, one flows into the animal realm: heavily, among furred beasts; lightly, among winged fowl. With seven parts emotion and three parts contemplative thought, one sinks below the water wheel, is born at the edge of the fire, receives the vapor of fierce flames, and becomes a hungry ghost constantly being burned; water can harm one, and one has neither food nor drink for hundreds of thousands of kalpas. With nine parts emotion and one part contemplative thought, one penetrates down into the fire wheel, lightly being born in the Intermittent Hell, heavily being born in the Avīci Hell. With pure emotion, one immediately sinks into the Avīci Hell. If within this sinking mind one has slandered the Great Vehicle, broken the Buddha's prohibitive precepts, deceitfully expounded the Dharma, falsely coveted the alms of the faithful, improperly accepted reverence, or committed the five heinous crimes or the ten grave offenses, one is further reborn in the Avīci Hells of the ten directions.'"