諸經要集 9.73

9.73

Furthermore, the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna-sūtra states: If there are sentient beings who, seeing another's relatives and friends dividing one another and harboring resentful knots, are able to bring them to harmony, at the end of their lives they will be born in the Heaven of Desired Love, where according to what their minds wish, they will immediately obtain the five desires to delight themselves. If there are sentient beings who, seeing someone ruined and plundered by others, rescue them and cause them to escape; or who teach people the right path in dangerous places; or who cause others to be secure in places of doubt and fear, at the end of their lives they will be born in the Heaven of Right Conduct, where heavenly maidens will make offerings to them and they will experience the pleasures of the five desires. If born among humans, they will be born into a family of a great elder who possesses right view. If someone can maintain a pliant and deep mind, free of all defilement, nirvāṇa and liberation are as if held in their hand. A person of pliant mind has a heart like white pewter; cultivating wholesome karma, they are trusted by all. A person of coarse and fierce mind has a heart like vajra; constantly never forgetting a resentful mind, their conduct is untamed, and they are detested, unloved, and mistrusted by all. At that time, Mayūra Bodhisattva, using a verse from the Buddha's sūtra, spoke a praise, saying: