西方合論 3.12

3.12

三、緯中之經者：一、《華嚴經》普賢菩薩勸進善財童子、海會大眾，發大十願；至臨命終時，一切諸根，悉皆散壞，一切威勢，悉皆退失，惟此願王，不相捨離，於一切時，引導其前，一剎那間，即得往生極樂世界；其人自見生蓮花中，蒙佛授記；得授記已，經無數劫，普於十方不可說不可說世界，以智慧力隨眾生心而為利益，乃至能於煩惱大苦海中，拔濟眾生，令其出離，皆得生於極樂世界。又解脫長者云：「我若欲見安樂世界，無量壽如來，隨意即見；如是十方一切世界所有如來，我若欲見，隨意即見。我能了知如來國土莊嚴神通等事，無所從來，亦無所去；無有行處，亦無住處。亦如己身，無來無去，無行住處。」

3. The warp within the woof: First, in the *Avataṃsaka-sūtra*, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva encourages Sudhana and the great assembly of the ocean-like gathering to make the ten great vows. When life comes to an end, all sense faculties are scattered and ruined, all power and prestige are lost, and only this king of vows does not abandon them; at all times it leads before them, and in a single instant they attain rebirth in Sukhāvatī. That person sees themselves born within a lotus flower, receiving prediction from the Buddha. Having received prediction, passing through countless kalpas, they broadly benefit sentient beings in ineffable and ineffable worlds throughout the ten directions in accord with their minds by the power of wisdom, up to being able to pull sentient beings out of the great ocean of suffering of defilements, causing them to escape and all to be born in Sukhāvatī. Furthermore, the Elder Vimokṣa says: ‘If I wish to see the World of Peace and Joy and Amitāyus Tathāgata, I see them as I wish; if I wish to see all the Tathāgatas in all the worlds of the ten directions like this, I see them as I wish. I am able to completely know that the adornments, spiritual penetrations, and other matters of the Tathāgata’s land have nowhere from which they come and nowhere to which they go; they have no place of movement and no place of abiding. Just like my own body, they have neither coming nor going, and no place of moving or abiding.’