無量壽經義記卷下 1.9

1.9

The first exhortation: from "If there are sentient beings who are born in that land": sentient beings of this land, having planted causes long ago, generate the intention [for awakening]; when the cause for rebirth is obtained, faith is foremost and the five faculties are already established. Within the avaivartika position, the emptiness of nominal designation is accomplished, and they are people of the samyaktva-niyata-rāśi, which corresponds to the earlier vow among the forty-eight vows: "If, when I attain Buddhahood, the gods and humans in my land should not all dwell in the samyaktva-niyata-rāśi..." "For what reason?": in explaining why they dwell in the samyaktva-niyata-rāśi, it is because their cultivation of causes is true and correct that they enter the samyaktva-niyata-rāśi.