[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) › 7.11 # 西方合論 7.11 西方合論 7.11 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.7.11) 三、菩薩生長壽等天者，《智度論》曰：「菩薩無方便入初禪，乃至行六波羅蜜，無方便者入初禪時不念眾生，住時起時不念眾生，但著禪味，不能與初禪和合行般若波羅蜜，是菩薩慈悲心薄故，功德薄少，為初禪果報所牽，生長壽天。」長壽天者，非有想非無想處，壽八萬大劫。或有人言，一切無色定通名長壽天，以無形不可化故，不任得道，常是凡夫處故。或說無想天名為長壽，亦不任得道故。或說從初禪至第四禪，除淨居天，皆名長壽，以著味邪見，善心難生故。如經中說：「佛問比丘：『甲頭土多，地上土多？』諸比丘言：『地上甚多，不可為喻。』佛言：『天上命終還生人中者如甲頭土，墮地獄者如地土。』」何以故？以本發阿耨多羅三藐三菩提心，或於禪中集諸福德，方得還生人中，聞佛法故。若是最初發心求生淨土，即常得聞法，直至不退，豈有如是等過。 > Third, as for bodhisattvas who are born in the Long-Life Heavens and similar realms, the Dazhidulun states: "When a bodhisattva enters the first dhyāna without skillful means, up to practicing the six perfections—one who lacks skillful means, upon entering the first dhyāna, is not mindful of sentient beings; when abiding in it and emerging from it, they are not mindful of sentient beings, but merely cling to the flavor of dhyāna and cannot conjoin with the first dhyāna to practice the perfection of wisdom. Because this bodhisattva's mind of compassion is weak, their merit is thin and scarce; dragged by the retributive effect of the first dhyāna, they are born into the Long-Life Heavens." The Long-Life Heaven refers to the Station of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception, where the lifespan is eighty thousand great kalpas. Some say that all formless absorptions are collectively called the Long-Life Heavens, because lacking form, beings cannot be transformed, are incapable of attaining the Way, and it is perpetually the abode of ordinary beings. Some say that the Non-Perceptive Heaven is called Long-Life, because it is also incapable of attaining the Way. Some say that from the first dhyāna to the fourth dhyāna, excepting the Śuddhāvāsa Heavens, all are called Long-Life, because beings cling to the flavor \[of meditation\] and wrong views, so that a virtuous mind is difficult to produce. As it is said in a sūtra: "The Buddha asked the monks: 'Is the earth on my fingernail more, or is the earth on the great ground more?' The monks said: 'The earth on the great ground is vastly more; it cannot be compared.' The Buddha said: 'Those who pass away from heaven and are born again among humans are like the earth on my fingernail, while those who fall into hell are like the earth on the ground.'" Why is this? Because only if they originally generated the aspiration for anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi, or gathered merits within dhyāna, can they be born back among humans and hear the Buddha-Dharma. If from the very beginning of their resolve they sought rebirth in the Pure Land, they would constantly hear the Dharma straight until non-retrogression—how could there be faults such as these? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.7.10) - [Next: 7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.7.12) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976~en-mt.7.11) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.7.11) · Pramāṇa