故经云：「供养父母功德，与供养一生补处菩萨功德等。」
[Thus does a] sūtra say, ‘Making offerings [to] fathers [and] mothers’ meritorious virtues, with making offerings [to] One Lifetime [To] Replacement Position’s Bodhisattvas’ meritorious virtues [are] equal.’
亲在，则善巧劝谕，令其持斋念佛求生西方。
[If your] parents [are] alive, then skilfully encourage [and] instruct, [to] lead them [to] uphold veg[etari]an fasting, [and] mindfulness [of] Buddha[‘s name] [i.e. Āmítuófó (阿弥陀佛)], 【to] seek birth [in his] Western [Pure Land Of Ultimate Bliss] [西方极乐世界].
亲殁(mò)，则以己读诵修持功德，常时至诚为亲回向。
[If your] parents [are] deceased, then with one’s studying [and] reciting [of sūtras and Buddha’s name’s] practices’ meritorious virtues, often sincerely for [your] parents dedicate [them].
令其永出五浊，长辞六趣。忍证无生，地登不退。
Leading them [to] forever exit [from the] five defilements, [to take] long farewell [from the] six realms. [With] forbearance realising non-birth, [and] ground ascending non-retrogression [in Pure Land].
[Note: Five defilements (五浊): (i) kalpa’s defilement (劫浊), (ii) views’ defilement (见浊), (iii) afflictions’ defilement (烦恼浊), (iv) sentient beings’ defilement (众生浊), (v) lifespans’ defilement (命浊).]
尽来际以度脱众生，令自他以共成觉道。
[To the] utmost [of] future’s limit, with deliverance [and] liberation [of] sentient beings, leading self [and] others, [with all] together accomplishing awakening’s path.
如是，乃为不与世共之大孝也。
Thus, then is [the] great filiality that [is] not with [the] world common.
净土宗十三祖印光大师
Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
(佛教以孝为本论)
(Treatise [On The] Buddha’s Teachings With Filial Piety As [Its] Root)
Namo Amituofo : Translation by Shen Shi’an
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