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釋迦慈心遍法界　蠢動含識普皆怜
意欲化令皆解脫　眾生罪業共無緣
所以總教歸淨土　彌陀宿昔有緣因
非但娑婆人獨往　他方去者亦無邊
彌陀攝化無厭定　悲心常遶世間行
但有傾誠能念佛　毫光直照目前明
十方世界微塵眾　同時命盡願皆生
計彼眾生心樂欲　分身遍布一時迎
觀彼彌陀與眷屬　久於曩劫植洪因
凡聖等皆同相好　人天一種紫金身
寶樹寶樓飛寶閣　寶池寶地寶成蓮
地及虛空賢聖滿　花中總是化生子
彌陀道成經十劫　眾生皆願往西方
菩薩聲聞非算數　五通賢者豈能量
彼國人居不退地　永超生死斷無常
九品花開隨早脫　端然取證亦何妨
菩薩道成皆為物　眾生未熟道成難
為是化緣兜率住　時時向下諦心觀
人年八萬方成道　三會逢緣證涅槃
具共迴心生淨土　臨時隨意往來看
十方三界恒沙佛　功德圓滿等無瑕
寶國莊嚴皆一種　要於極樂共咨嗟
但有聞名皆顛往　定名解脫得非賒
如來不滅歸圓寂　遣行舍利遍三千
寶塔浮圖建形象　禮念香焚百和煎
菩薩妙行雖無量　當知念佛最為先
乘此因緣生淨土　須臾即至世尊前
三藏微言真聖教　難逢難過亦難逢
動經恒沙河劫數　知有西方淨土門
一念須心出生死　終身不退佛迎魂
觀音救攝多便便　神通變化實難思
或復轉身成正覺　或為侍者現師資
眾生樂欲心非一　隨緣六道應時宜
勸喻總將歸淨土　咸令見佛證無為
勢至住在彌陀國　報得無比紫金身
為度眾生來此界　現形同此世間人
怜慜火宅燒然苦　隨緣六道強勾牽
送向西方安隱地　遣於生死斷因緣
西方淨土諸賢聖　神通自在更無過
一念相隨遊佛剎　凡經劫數幾恒河
十方世界皆供養　同時說法一時聽
微塵世界恒沙佛　六通神用豈知名
聞彼彌陀安樂國　總皆渴仰致丁寧
況及凡夫流浪者　不求解脫出塵榮
十方三世聲間眾　窮劫算數豈能知
諸佛如來方便化　咸令至果斷貪癡
指示西方安樂國　聞名皆恨往生遲
解脫之人皆願樂　凡夫不去欲何為

Śākya's compassionate mind pervades the Dharma realm; / wriggling creatures and conscious beings are all pitied. / He wishes to transform them so that all attain liberation, / yet beings' sinful karma lacks affinity with him. / Therefore he instructs them all to take refuge in the Pure Land, / where Amitābha has longstanding karmic causes. / Not only do the people of Sahā go there alone; / those who go from other worlds are also boundless. / Amitābha gathers and transforms without weariness or satiety, / his compassionate mind constantly circling the world. / If only one has sincere devotion and can recite the Buddha's name, / his white curl's light shines straight and bright before one's eyes. / Beings numerous as dust motes in the worlds of the ten directions / simultaneously reach their life's end and all vow to be reborn. / Discerning the desires of those beings' minds, / his emanated bodies spread everywhere, simultaneously welcoming them. / Look upon that Amitābha and his retinue: / long ago in past kalpas they planted vast causes. / Ordinary beings and sages alike possess identical marks and characteristics; / humans and devas share a single purple-golden body. / Jewelled trees, jewelled towers, flying jewelled pavilions, / jewelled ponds, jewelled ground, and jewelled lotuses. / The earth and empty sky are filled with sages and saints; / in the flowers, all are transformationally born sons. / Since Amitābha achieved the Way, ten kalpas have passed; / all sentient beings vow to go to the West. / Bodhisattvas and śrāvakas cannot be counted; / how could the sages of five supernatural powers ever be measured? / The people of that land dwell on the ground of non-retrogression, / forever transcending birth and death, severing impermanence. / As the nine grades of flowers blossom, according with early liberation, / what harm is there in serenely attaining realization? / When a bodhisattva achieves the Way, it is entirely for the sake of beings; / when beings are not yet mature, achieving the Way is difficult. / Because of this, [Maitreya] dwells in Tuṣita awaiting the affinity for transformation, / constantly looking down and contemplating with a focused mind. / Only when human life reaches eighty thousand years will he achieve the Way; / encountering affinities at the three assemblies, they realize nirvāṇa. / If they all turn their minds together to be reborn in the Pure Land, / they may freely come and go to observe at that time. / The sands-of-the-Gaṅgā Buddhas of the three realms in the ten directions / are consummate in merit and virtue, equally flawless. / The adornments of their jewelled lands are all of one kind, / yet they all praise Sukhāvatī together. / If any only hear the name, they tumble headlong toward it; / their name is definitively set for liberation, obtained without delay. / The Tathāgata does not perish but returns to tranquil extinction, / sending forth relics that pervade the three-thousandfold world. / Jewelled stupas and pagodas are erected with his images; / worship and recollection are offered, burning blends of a hundred incenses. / Although the wondrous practices of bodhisattvas are boundless, / you should know that recitation of the Buddha's name is foremost. / Mounting this cause and condition to be reborn in the Pure Land, / in an instant one arrives before the World-Honoured One. / The subtle words of the Tripiṭaka are the true sacred teaching, / hard to encounter, hard to pass through, and hard to meet again. / Only after passing through kalpas numerous as the sands of the Gaṅgā River / does one know there is this Western Pure Land gate. / In a single moment of focused mind one transcends birth and death; / throughout one's life there is no regression, and the Buddha welcomes the soul. / Avalokiteśvara saves and gathers with many skillful means; / his supernatural powers and transformations are truly hard to conceive. / Sometimes he turns his body to achieve right awakening, / or becomes an attendant, manifesting master and disciple. / The desires and minds of beings are not uniform; / according with affinities in the six destinies, he responds as fitting for the time. / He exhorts and guides them all to return to the Pure Land, / causing all to see the Buddha and realize the unconditioned. / Mahāsthāmaprāpta dwells in Amitābha's land, / having attained an incomparable purple-golden body as retribution. / To deliver beings he comes to this realm, / manifesting a form identical to people of this world. / Pitying the blazing suffering of the burning house, / according with affinities in the six destinies he forcefully pulls them forth, / sending them toward the Western land of peace and stability, / causing them to cut off the causes and conditions of birth and death. / The sages and saints of the Western Pure Land / have supernatural mastery surpassed by none. / Following one another in a single thought, they roam the Buddha-lands; / how many sands of the Gaṅgā in kalpas have they traversed? / They make offerings in the worlds of the ten directions, / simultaneously expounding the Dharma and hearing it all at once. / As for the Buddhas numerous as the sands of the Gaṅgā in dust-mote worlds, / how could the function of their six supernatural powers ever be fully named? / Hearing of that Land of Bliss of Amitābha, / all thirst with longing and pay earnest attention. / How much more so should ordinary beings wandering aimlessly / not seek liberation to transcend worldly glory? / The śrāvakas of the ten directions and three periods of time / cannot be known through calculations across exhausting kalpas. / The Buddhas, Tathāgatas, skillfully transform them, / causing them all to reach the fruit and cut off greed and delusion. / Pointing out the Western Land of Bliss, / hearing the name, all lament having been late to be reborn. / People of liberation all aspire and delight in it; / if ordinary beings do not go, what are they waiting for?