张善和，张钟馗，临终地狱相现，念佛数声，即亲见佛来接引往生。如是利益，一代时教，百千万亿法门之所无者。
Zhang Shanhe and Zhang Zhongkui [who had done great evil, but repented in time], when approaching the end of life with hell’s forms manifesting, recited [Amitabha] Buddha’s name [Amituofo] a number of times [with utmost sincerity], and immediately personally saw the Buddha come to receive and guide them to be reborn [in his Pure Land]. Such [great] benefits, [among Sakyamuni Buddha’s] one whole lifetime’s teachings, of hundreds of thousands of millions of [other] Dharma doors [of practice], [they are] without them.
吾常曰，九界众生离此法，上不能圆成佛道，十方诸佛舍此法，下不能普利群萌者。此之谓也。
I often say, that [if] the nine [dharma] realms’ sentient beings [who are hell-beings, hungry ghosts, animals, humans, asuras, gods, Arhats, Pratyekabuddhas and Bodhisattvas] depart from this [Pure Land] Dharma, for the highest goal, [they are] not able to completely accomplish the Buddha path, [and if] all Buddhas of the ten directions renounce this Dharma, for those below, [they] are not able to universally benefit most beings. This is the meaning of that said.
果能生死心切，信得及，不生一念疑惑之心，则虽未出娑婆，已非娑婆之久客，未生极乐，即是极乐之嘉宾。
If able to have, for [liberation from] birth and death, a mind that is sincere, with [strong] faith attained, not giving rise to a thought with the mind of uncertainty, then even if yet to exit from the Saha World [of ‘Endurance’ of birth and death], [one] already is not the Saha World’s guest for long, [though] yet to be born in [the Land Of] Ultimate Bliss, [one] already is [the Land Of] Ultimate Bliss’ honourable guest, [who will definitely reach it].
净土宗十三祖印光大师
The 13th Patriarch of the Pure Land tradition Great Master Yinguang
复邓伯诚居士书二
Second reply letter to Layman Deng Bocheng
Namo Amituofo : Translation by Shen Shi’an
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