念佛法门，但具真信切愿，至诚念佛。及至临命终时，必蒙佛慈接引，往生西方。喻如小孩，由父母提携，即可直达本家也。
[The] Dharma Door [Of] Mindfulness [Of] Buddha, only [needs one to be] complete [with] true Faith [and] sincere Aspiration [to, with] utmost sincerity, [be] mindful [of Amitā(bha)] Buddha[‘s name: 阿弥陀佛: ‘Āmítuófó’]. [Practising thus], up till when approaching [the] end [of] life, [one] definitely [will] receive [the] Buddha’s kind reception [and] guidance, [to be] reborn [in his] Western [Pure Land. As an] analogy, like [a] small child, due [to the] Father’s [or] Mother’s carrying, [one] can immediately [and] directly reach [one’s] original home.
近人多好立异，不肯做老实工夫，故有学禅宗相宗密宗者。此三法门，均不可思议，然均属自力。
Recently, many people [are] fond [of] establishing [the] different, not willing [to put in] earnest effort [to practise as above], thus are [there] those [who] learning [from the] Chán Tradition, [Fǎ]xiāng Tradition [法相宗: Dharma Characteristics Tradition; 瑜伽宗: Yogācāra Tradition; 唯识宗: Consciousness-Only Tradition] [and] Esoteric Tradition. These three Dharma Doors, [although are] equally inconceivable, however, [they] equally depend [on] Self-power [only, without support of Other-power available in the Pure Land Tradition].
密宗虽有现身成佛之义，而现身成者，究有几人。莫道学密之人，不能现身成佛。即传密宗之活佛，也不是现身成佛之人。
[The] Esoteric Tradition, although having association to, [in this] present body accomplishing Buddhahood, yet [of] those [who in their] present bodies accomplish [so], after all, how many people are [there? This is] not [to] say [that] people [who] learn [the] Esoteric Tradition, [are] not able [to, in their] present bodies accomplish Buddhahood. [However], even of [so-called] ‘living Buddhas, [who] transmit [the] Esoteric Tradition, [they] also are not people [who, in their] present lives accomplished Buddhahood.
汝等且莫随此各法门知识转，则现生便可出此五浊，登彼九品，为弥陀之弟子，作海会之良朋矣。
You [and] others, also [should] not accord [with] these various Dharma Doors’ knowledge [to be] transformed, [to part from the Pure Land teachings]. Thus [in this] present life, then [are you] able [to] exit [from] this [world with the] Five Defilements [of kalpa, views, afflictions, sentient beings and lifespans, to] ascend [the] other [shore’s] nine grades [of lotus births in Pure Land], as disciples of Āmítuófó, [to] become good friends of [the lotus pond] ocean[-wide] assembly!
净土宗十三祖印光大师
《复韩宗明，张宗善二居士书》
Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
(Reply Letter [To] Two Laymen Hán Zōngmíng [And] Zhāng Zōngshàn)
Namo Amituofo : Translation by Shen Shi’an
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