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贊曰。唾必西避。坐必西向。繫念如斯。何事不辦。今以輕心淺心。而欲往生難矣。或曰。不已着乎。噫諦觀落日。經有明文。智者大師。始生而面西趺坐。乃至淨業諸賢。西向坐脫者。不着而能之乎。耽心濁境。終世安然。纔念淨邦。便憂其着。顛倒乃爾。嗟乎異哉。

In praise: In spitting, he invariably avoided the west; in sitting, he invariably faced the west. With mindfulness fastened like this, what enterprise could fail to be accomplished? Nowadays, people wish to obtain rebirth with a light and shallow mind; that is difficult indeed! Someone might ask: 'Is this not excessively clinging?' Ah! To contemplate the setting sun attentively is explicitly stated in the sūtra. As for Great Master Zhiyi, when he was first born, he sat cross-legged facing the west; and furthermore, could the various worthy ones of pure karma who passed away seated facing the west have done so without such single-minded focus? People indulge their minds in turbid realms and remain at ease for their entire lives; yet the moment they turn their thoughts to the pure land, they immediately worry about clinging. What perversity this is! Alas, how strange!