三寶感應要略錄 2.148

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楊州有居士。不信大般涅槃常住佛性理。更聞常住二字。不墮惡道。生不信云。聞一部典。猶不可免惡道。況二字乎。後時居士。微疾而死。心上少暖未發葬。七日醒云。吾至閻魔天子城。王呵云。汝謗深經。報在阿鼻。爾時憶持因果。白王言。設謗故墮惡道。聞常住二字故。亦可閉惡道門戶。時空中忽有光現。光中說偈曰。

In Yangzhou, there was a lay devotee who did not believe in the principle of the eternal and abiding Buddha-nature in the Mahāparinirvāṇa[-sūtra]. Further hearing that through the two characters 'eternal and abiding' one would not fall into evil destinies, he gave rise to disbelief, saying: 'Hearing an entire scripture cannot even prevent one from falling into evil destinies, so how much less two characters?' Later, the lay devotee died of a slight illness. There was a little warmth at his chest, so he was not yet buried. After seven days, he awoke and said: 'I reached the city of King Yama. The King scolded me, saying: "You slandered the profound sūtra; your retribution is in Avīci." At that time, I remembered and upheld cause and effect, and said to the King: "Even if by slandering I am to fall into evil destinies, because I heard the two characters 'eternal and abiding', the gates to evil destinies should also be closed." At that time, a light suddenly appeared in the empty sky, and within the light, a verse was spoken, saying: