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佛說觀佛三昧海經 2.14

佛說觀佛三昧海經 2.14

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Classical Chinese

2.14

「是時菩薩,徐舉右臂申眉間毛,下向用擬阿鼻地獄,令諸罪人見白毛中流出眾水,澍如車軸雨大火上,大火暫滅唯烟氣在,令受罪人心得小悟,自憶前世百生、千生、百千萬生所作諸罪。諸獄卒等持大鐵叉舉起罪人,盡其身力不能得動。忽然自見大鐵叉頭如白銀山,龕室千萬,有白師子盤身為座,於其座上生白蓮華,有妙菩薩入勝意慈,如是莊嚴如須彌山。放叉擲地,有七寶華生叉根下,有白色光明,照諸地獄及獄卒身,令閻羅王及諸獄卒作白銀山,猶如電光暫時得見。諸受罪人,六情諸根猛火速起,節頭火然筋脈生釘,暫得一起,合掌叉手向白毫相,即時心開。見白毛中人如己無異,坐蓮華林,以水澆灌諸罪人頂,令心熱惱暫得清涼,即皆同時稱:『南無佛』。以是因緣,受罪畢訖直生人中,諸情完具正見出家,既出家已,破二十億洞然之結,成須陀洹。

Then the Bodhisattva slowly raised his right arm, stretched the hair between his eyebrows, and directed it downward toward the Avīci hell. He caused all the sinners to see flowing streams of water emerge from within the white hair, pouring down like cart axles and raining upon the great fires. The great fires were temporarily extinguished, with only smoke remaining, allowing the minds of those undergoing punishment to gain a slight awakening, naturally recalling the sins they had committed over a hundred lives, a thousand lives, or hundreds of thousands of myriads of lives in past ages. The hell-wardens held their great iron pitchforks to hoist the sinners up, but with all their physical strength they could not move them. Suddenly, they themselves saw the tips of their great iron pitchforks become like white silver mountains with ten million shrines and chambers, where white lions coiled their bodies to form seats, and upon these seats grew white lotus flowers, upon which wondrous bodhisattvas entered the supreme contemplation of loving-kindness, adorned like Mount Sumeru. Letting go of their pitchforks, they threw them to the ground; flowers of the seven treasures grew beneath the bases of the pitchforks, and white light shone upon all the hells and the bodies of the hell-wardens, causing Yamarāja and the hell-wardens to appear as white silver mountains, seen momentarily like flashes of lightning. For the sinners, fierce fires swiftly arose in their six sense faculties; fires flared at their joints and nails drove through their tendons and veins. Yet, momentarily able to rise, they joined their palms and held their hands toward the mark of the white curl, and immediately their minds opened. They saw the persons within the white hair as no different from themselves, sitting in a grove of lotus flowers, pouring water upon the crowns of the sinners' heads, causing the burning afflictions in their minds to momentarily become cool and refreshing, whereupon they all simultaneously exclaimed: “Namo Buddhāya!” Due to these causes and conditions, when their retribution was completed, they were born directly among humans, endowed fully with all sense faculties, with right view, and went forth into homelessness. Having gone forth, they shattered twenty billion blazing fetters and attained the fruit of srotāpanna.

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