往生集 3.73

3.73

In praise: The 'Universal Gate Chapter' states: 'Or imprisoned in cangues and chains, / Hands and feet bound in fetters and manacles, / By mindfulness of that power of Avalokiteśvara, / One is immediately released and attains liberation.' People of past and present believe this. Yet regarding liberation through buddhamanasikāra, people sometimes do not believe it; this is due to being habituated to common views. The supernatural power of a Buddha surpasses that of a bodhisattva by I know not how many times! Have you not seen that when one's limbs are severed, by recollecting Śākyamuni Tathāgata, the four limbs are regenerated? If severed limbs can still regenerate, what is there to fetters and manacles? Yet those who believe in it are few; hence I have displayed and brought it forth.