宗鏡錄 21.14

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21.14

Question: Regarding the pure land explained above, I respectfully accept your exalted purport. But investigating the profound source, it does not take concrete phenomena as pure; purity is understood as freedom from defilement. This means karmic practices differ and their ripening retributions do not mix. Thus people of stone and sand cannot tread upon the land of the seven precious treasures together with devas. Now I wonder: the karma of animals differs from that of humans, yet they tread together upon the earth of stone and sand—does this contradict the established principle?

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宗鏡錄 — Classical Chinese