西方合論 3.39

3.39

如來金口言，讚歎西方土。
如入長安城，東西南北入；
入已即一城，無別天子都。
普賢佛長子，文殊七佛師；
授記及迴向，是果位往生。
釋種得法忍，善財證佛果；
面奉阿彌陀，是菩薩往生。
龍樹破有無，祈婆最勝根；
皆得佛授記，是禪師往生。
聞佛心信樂，誦念與持諷；
大石置船上，是下劣往生。
阿難世多聞，佛子中第一；
不如念一佛，頓了諸經法。
云何義解家，得輕易念佛？
諸正念法門，經中皆悉載。
但一大乘法，無二亦無三；
奉勸悟達士，趁時歇狂解。
一心念阿彌，蓮花念念生；
此是常寂光，非報非方便。
作是觀為正，勿妄生分別；
禪教律三乘，同歸淨土海。
一切法皆入，是無上普門；
教海義無量，甕觀捨少許。
一臠遍鼎味，是中有全藏。

The words from the Tathāgata's golden mouth
Extol the Western Land.
It is like entering the city of Chang'an:
One enters from east, west, south, or north;
Having entered, it is just one city;
There is no separate imperial capital.
Samantabhadra, the eldest son of the Buddha,
Mañjuśrī, teacher of seven buddhas:
Bestowing prophecies and dedicating merit,
This is rebirth in the fruition stage.
Sons of the Śākya clan attain dharma-forbearance;
Sudhana realizes the fruit of buddhahood;
Face-to-face they serve Amitābha:
This is rebirth for bodhisattvas.
Nāgārjuna demolished existence and non-existence;
Jīvaka had supreme faculties;
All received prophecies from the Buddha:
This is rebirth for Chan masters.
Hearing of the Buddha, their minds rejoice in faith;
Reciting, mindfully recollecting, and intoning;
A great stone placed on a ship:
This is rebirth for the lowly and inferior.
Ānanda was foremost in erudition in the world,
First among the Buddha's disciples;
Yet it does not equal mindfully recollecting one buddha
To suddenly understand all scriptural teachings.
Why should commentators on doctrinal meanings
Treat buddhānusmṛti with levity?
The various teachings of right mindfulness
Are entirely recorded in the sūtras.
There is only the one Mahāyāna teaching,
Neither a second nor a third.
I respectfully urge enlightened and discerning persons:
Take this opportunity to cease your wild interpretations!
Single-mindedly recollect Amitābha,
And lotus blossoms will bloom thought after thought.
This is the Eternally Quiescent Light,
Neither reward [land] nor expedient [land].
To form such contemplation is correct;
Do not falsely give rise to discrimination.
Chan, Doctrine, Vinaya, and the three vehicles
Together return to the ocean of the Pure Land.
All teachings enter into it;
It is the unsurpassed universal gate.
The ocean of teachings is infinite in meaning;
A scoop from the jar leaves a little behind.
A single morsel conveys the flavour of the entire cauldron;
Within this, the entire canon is present.