坐禪三昧經 1.51

1.51

答曰：「行者若念是國土，豐樂安隱多諸好人，恒為國土覺繩所牽，將去罪處。覺心如是，若有智人不應念著。何以故？國土種種過罪所燒時節轉故，亦有飢餓身疲極故，一切國土無常安者。復次，老病死苦無國不有，從是間身苦去、得彼處身苦，一切國土去無不苦。假有國土安隱豐樂，而有結惱心生苦患，是非好國土；能除雜惡國土、能薄結使令心不惱，是謂好國土。一切眾生有二種苦：身苦。心苦。常有苦惱，無有國土無此二惱。復次有國土大寒，有國土大熱，有國土飢餓，有國土多病，有國土多賊，有國土王法不理。如是種種國土之惡心不應著，如是正觀除國土覺。」

Answer: "If a practitioner thinks, 'This land is prosperous, joyful, secure, and has many good people,' he will constantly be pulled by the rope of thoughts of homeland and led to a place of guilt. The ideating mind being like this, if one is a wise person, one should not be attached to such thoughts. Why is this? A homeland is scorched by various faults and transgressions; because the seasons change, and also because there is starvation and bodily exhaustion, all lands are without permanent peace. Furthermore, the suffering of old age, sickness, and death exists in every land; leaving the bodily suffering of this place, one obtains the bodily suffering of that place—nowhere one goes among all lands is without suffering. Supposing there were a land that is secure, prosperous, and joyful, yet having the distress of defilements the mind produces suffering and affliction, this is not a good land. That which can remove mixed evils in a land, can attenuate defilements, and can keep the mind free from distress—this is called a good land. All sentient beings have two kinds of suffering: bodily suffering and mental suffering. They constantly have suffering and distress; there is no land without these two distresses. Furthermore, some lands are extremely cold, some lands are extremely hot, some lands have famine, some lands have much sickness, some lands have many bandits, and in some lands the royal law is disordered. The mind should not be attached to such various evils of homelands. In this way correct contemplation eliminates thoughts of homeland."