淨土五會念佛略法事儀讚 2.3

2.3

可怜生可怜生，菩薩子遊戲在西方（宛轉花臺裏宛轉花臺裏）。出門能忍辱（花臺裏），入戶莫懷瞋（花臺裏），但能修淨土（菩薩子），證得紫金身（宛轉花臺裏宛轉花臺裏）。眾生心眾生心，無明泥底沈，何時得惺悟（菩薩子），證得百千金（宛轉花臺裏宛轉花臺裏）？眾生心眾生心，波浪壯難襟（攀緣四天下菩薩子），何處不追尋（宛轉花臺裏宛轉花臺裏）？何指彌陀國？轟轟樂，無有一人過地獄底苦，恤恤眾生竄者多。奈何天奈何天，眾生共佛無因緣，千言百語化不得（菩薩子），定知將罪人黃泉（宛轉花臺裏宛轉花臺裏）。彌陀造大船，攪到苦海邊，船頭黯黯定欲沒（菩薩子），貴貴度得念佛人（宛轉花臺裏宛轉花臺裏）。池東池西百寶臺，光明樓閣萬重開，暫向樓中觀補處（菩薩子），還來殿上禮如來（宛轉花臺裏宛轉花臺裏）。紅蓮華青蓮華，千葉蓮華臺上生（攝受彌陀佛攝受彌陀佛）。

How lovely, how lovely! The bodhisattvas play and roam in the West (whirling within the flower terrace, whirling within the flower terrace). Going out the door, be able to endure humilation (within the flower terrace); entering within the household, harbor no anger (within the flower terrace). Only be able to cultivate the Pure Land (bodhisattvas), and you shall realize the purple-golden body (whirling within the flower terrace, whirling within the flower terrace). The minds of sentient beings, the minds of sentient beings, sunken at the bottom of the mire of ignorance—when will they awaken (bodhisattvas) and attain the hundreds of thousands in gold (whirling within the flower terrace, whirling within the flower terrace)? The minds of sentient beings, the minds of sentient beings, surging waves difficult to restrain (grasping after the four continents, bodhisattvas)—where do they not pursue and seek (whirling within the flower terrace, whirling within the flower terrace)? Why do they not turn toward Amitābha's land? Resounding is the joy, where not a single person suffers the bottommost pains of hell, yet pitifully sentient beings flee into hiding in great numbers. What can be done, O Heaven, what can be done? Sentient beings have no affinity with the Buddha. Though exhorted with hundreds and thousands of words, they cannot be transformed (bodhisattvas); it is certain that their sins will lead them to the Yellow Springs (whirling within the flower terrace, whirling within the flower terrace). Amitābha builds a great ship and churns through to the shore of the ocean of suffering. Though the ship's bow tilts darkly, as if about to sink (bodhisattvas), most dearly it ferries across those who are mindful of the Buddha (whirling within the flower terrace, whirling within the flower terrace). East of the pond, west of the pond, are terraces of a hundred jewels; radiant towers and pavilions open in ten thousand tiers. For a while one gazes into the pavilions at those in the place of one more birth (bodhisattvas), and returns again to the hall to pay homage to the Tathāgata (whirling within the flower terrace, whirling within the flower terrace). Red lotus flowers, blue lotus flowers, born upon the terraces of thousand-petaled lotuses (gathered and received by Amitābha Buddha, gathered and received by Amitābha Buddha).