[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) › 8.12 # 西方合論 8.12 西方合論 8.12 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.8.12) 二、疑念力輕微者，眾生愚昧，信有形之行業大，不信無形之念力尤大。何故？念力是行業根，一切事業非念不成。如人造罪，無心造者，重得輕報；有心造者反是，以念力重故。如人無記時，流俗鄙事，耳提面囑，亦復不記；若心在者，種種難記之事，一入耳根，終身憶持不忘，以念力堅固。蘇子瞻曰：「佛以大圓覺，充滿十方界；我以顛倒想，出沒生死中。」云何以一念，得往生淨土？我造無始業，本從一念生；既從一念生，還從一念滅。生滅滅盡處，則我與佛同。如投水海中，如風中鼓槖，雖有大聖智，亦不能分別。《淨土決》云：「人之念頭，所係最急，如水之必赴海，如火之必炎上，如利刃之必傷，如毒藥之必殺，無空過者，念佛之念亦復如是。」如婬男子婬念堅故，化為猛焰延燒神廟。又如月光童子觀想水故，弟子窺屋唯見清水。又如僧清辯與外道論議，外道堅執己見忽化為石，清辯猶書目于石上，明日往視之，亦有答辭，久之忽自破碎，而吼聲于空中。是等皆以念力堅猛，無因變化，云何念佛而佛不現？當知念力是一切法中之王，如摩訶那伽大力勇士，怒時額上必生瘡，瘡若未合，遍閻浮提人無敵者故。 > 2. Doubting that the power of mindfulness is slight and weak: Sentient beings are foolish and dark; they believe that tangible bodily actions are great, but do not believe that the intangible power of mindfulness is even greater. Why is this? The power of mindfulness is the root of bodily actions; no enterprise can be accomplished without thought. For example, when a person commits a crime, one who commits it unintentionally incurs a light retribution for a heavy offense; one who commits it intentionally is the opposite, because the power of mindfulness was heavy. For example, when a person is in an unmindful state, even if vulgar and common affairs are spoken right into their ears and instructed to their face, they still do not remember them; yet if the mind is attentive, all kinds of difficult-to-remember matters, once entering the ear faculty, will be remembered and held throughout life without being forgotten, because the power of mindfulness is firm. Su Zizhan said: "The Buddha, with great perfect enlightenment, fills the realms of the ten directions; I, with inverted thoughts, emerge and sink in saṃsāra." How could one, with a single thought, attain rebirth in the Pure Land? The beginningless karma I have created fundamentally arose from a single thought; since it arose from a single thought, it is also extinguished by a single thought. Where arising and ceasing are completely extinguished, I am the same as the Buddha. It is like pouring water into the ocean, or blowing bellows in the wind; even with great holy wisdom, one cannot distinguish them. The Jingtujue states: "What a person's thoughts cling to is most urgent: like water inevitably heading to the sea, like fire inevitably flaming upward, like a sharp blade inevitably cutting, like a poison inevitably killing, none miss their mark; the thought of buddhānusmṛti is also like this." For example, because a lustful man's thought of lust was firm, it transformed into a fierce flame that spread to burn down a shrine. Also, because the youth Candraprabha visualized water, when his disciple peeked into the room, he saw only clear water. Also, when the monk Bhaviveka debated with a non-Buddhist, the non-Buddhist stubbornly clung to his own view and suddenly transformed into stone; Bhaviveka still wrote his questions upon the stone, and when he went to look the next day, there were also answers; after a long time, it suddenly shattered by itself, with a roaring sound in the sky. These all occurred because the power of mindfulness was firm and fierce, undergoing transformation without external cause; how could it be that when one is mindful of the Buddha, the Buddha does not manifest? One should know that the power of mindfulness is the king among all phenomena. It is like the mighty warrior Mahānāga: when he is enraged, a sore inevitably forms on his forehead, and if the sore has not yet closed, no one in all of Jambudvīpa can rival him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.8.11) - [Next: 8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.8.13) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976~en-mt.8.12) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.8.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1976.8.12) · Pramāṇa