往生集 2.284

2.284

贊曰。身已坐蓮花中。生則決定生也。何處即此處。去則實不去也。居士之生。當不在中下品矣。

An appraisal states: 'My body is already seated in a lotus blossom'—if one is born, one is definitely born. 'That place is this very place'—if one goes, one does not truly go. The layman's rebirth must not be of the middle or lower grades.