往生集 2.21

2.21

The appreciation says: His body was bound, yet his mind engaged in buddhamanasikāra, and in the end he was granted amnesty; this is like one who, imprisoned in shackles, attains liberation by being mindful of Avalokiteśvara. Now, when we are bound and entangled by the five desires, is that not being imprisoned? A single invocation of the Buddha's name eliminates the grave karmic offenses of birth and death spanning eighty kotis of kalpas; is that not an imperial pardon? Yet people tie their hands to the five desires and do not know to engage in buddhamanasikāra, bearing their offenses through eternal kalpas with never an occasion of amnesty. How lamentable!