[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) › [西方合論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976) › 6.5 # 西方合論 6.5 西方合論 6.5 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.6.5) 一、信心行者，經云：「信為道元功德母。」一切諸行，無不以信為正因，乃至菩提果滿，亦只完此信根。如谷子墮地，迨于成實，不異初種；如稚筍參天，暨至叢葉，本是原竿。初心菩薩，無不依是信力而成就者。是故蓮宗門下，全仗此信為根本：一者、信阿彌陀佛不動智、根本智，與己無異。如一大虛空，日映則明，雲來則翳，虛空本無是故；又則雲與日，皆即虛空故。二者、信阿彌陀佛，從發願來，那由他劫內，一切難行難忍種種修習之事，我亦能行。何以故？自憶無始劫中漂溺三塗，生苦、死苦、披毛戴角苦、鐵床銅柱苦，一切無益之苦，皆能受之，何況如今菩薩萬行濟眾生事，豈不能為？三者、信阿彌陀佛，無量智慧、無量神通，及成就無量願力等事，我亦當得。何以故？如來自性方便，具有如是不思議事，我與如來同一自體清淨性故。四者、信阿彌陀佛，不去不來，我亦不去不來；西方此土，不隔毫端，欲見即見。何以故？一切諸佛，皆以法性為身土故。五者、信阿彌陀佛修行歷劫，直至證果，不移剎那，我今亦不移剎那，位齊諸佛。何以故？時分者是業收，法界海中業不可得故。如是信解，是謂入道初心，信一切諸佛淨土之行。 > First, regarding the practice of faithful mind, the sūtra says: “Faith is the origin of the Way and the mother of merits.” None of the myriad practices does not take faith as its correct cause; even when the fruit of bodhi is perfected, it is merely the fulfillment of this faculty of faith. It is like a grain seed falling to the ground: by the time it bears fruit, it is no different from the initial seed; like a young bamboo shoot reaching to heaven: when it grows into a cluster of leaves, it is fundamentally the original stalk. Initial-mind bodhisattvas without exception achieve completion relying on this power of faith. Therefore, under the gate of the Lotus School, one relies wholly on this faith as the root. First: to believe that Amitābha Buddha’s immovable wisdom and fundamental wisdom are no different from one's own. It is like the great empty sky: when the sun shines it is bright, and when clouds arrive it is obscured, yet the empty sky fundamentally has neither of these; furthermore, both clouds and sun are identical with the empty sky. Second: to believe that Amitābha Buddha, since making his vows, through nayutas of kalpas, has performed all kinds of difficult and unbearable practices, and I too am able to practice them. Why is this? Recalling that through beginningless kalpas I drifted and drowned in the three evil destinies, enduring the suffering of birth, the suffering of death, the suffering of wearing fur and horns, the suffering of iron beds and bronze pillars—I was able to endure all these useless sufferings; how much more so the current myriad bodhisattva practices for saving sentient beings—how could I be unable to do them? Third: to believe that Amitābha Buddha's immeasurable wisdom, immeasurable supernatural powers, and accomplishment of immeasurable vows and the like will also be attained by me. Why is this? The Tathāgata's self-nature upāya possesses such inconceivable things, and I share the same inherently pure nature of self-essence with the Tathāgata. Fourth: to believe that Amitābha Buddha neither goes nor comes, and I too neither go nor come; the Western Land and this land are not separated by the tip of a hair; if one wishes to see, one sees immediately. Why is this? Because all buddhas take the Dharma-nature as their body and land. Fifth: to believe that Amitābha Buddha’s cultivation passing through kalpas until realizing the fruit did not shift a single kṣaṇa; I now also do not shift a single kṣaṇa, equal in stage to all buddhas. Why is this? Because divisions of time are subsumed under karma, and in the ocean of the dharmadhātu karma cannot be found. Such faithful understanding is called the initial mind entering the Way, the practice of faith in all buddhas' pure lands. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.6.4) - [Next: 6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.6.6) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976~en-mt.6.5) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.6.5) · Pramāṇa