[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [廬山蓮宗寶鑑](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1973) › 8.6 # 廬山蓮宗寶鑑 8.6 廬山蓮宗寶鑑 8.6 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1973.8.6) 慈照宗主《淨土十門告誡》云「念佛人臨終三疑不生淨土：一者疑我生來作業極重、修行日淺，恐不得生。二者疑我欠人債負、或有心願未了，及貪瞋癡未息，恐不得生。三者疑我雖念彌陀，臨命終時恐佛不來迎接。有此三疑，因疑成障，失其正念，不得往生。」故念佛之人切要諦信佛經明旨，勿生疑心。經云「念阿彌陀佛一聲，滅八十億劫生死重罪。」上至一心不亂，下至十念成功，接向九蓮令辭五濁，苟能心心不昧、念念無差，則疑情永斷決定往生。可謂十萬億程彈指到，絲毫擬議隔千山。 > School Master Cizhao's Ten Admonitory Gateways to the Pure Land says: "Those who practice buddhānusmṛti harbour three doubts at the end of life that prevent birth in the Pure Land: First, doubting: 'The karma I have created in this life is exceedingly heavy, and my practice has lasted only a short time; I fear I will not attain birth.' Second, doubting: 'I owe debts to others, or have unfulfilled wishes in mind, and my greed, anger, and delusion have not yet ceased; I fear I will not attain birth.' Third, doubting: 'Although I recite Amitābha, I fear the Buddha will not come to welcome me at the end of life.' Having these three doubts, one turns doubt into an obstacle, loses right mindfulness, and fails to attain rebirth." Therefore, practitioners of buddhānusmṛti must decisively believe in the clear intent of the Buddhist sūtras and never give rise to doubt. A sūtra says: "Reciting Amitābha Buddha's name once eliminates the grave sins of birth and death spanning eighty kotis of kalpas." From the highest level of an undisturbed single mind down to success in ten recitations, he welcomes one to the nine grades of lotus blossoms and bids farewell to the five turbidities. If in mind after mind one is unclouded, and thought after thought does not err, then doubtful feelings will be severed forever, and rebirth will be assured. As the saying goes: / A journey of a hundred thousand kotis is reached in the snap of a finger; / The slightest hesitation separates one by a thousand mountains. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1973.8.5) - [Next: 8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1973.8.7) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1973.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1973~en-mt.8.6) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [龍舒增廣淨土文](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.12.4) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1973.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1973.8.6) · Pramāṇa