如何尽大孝？
How To Fulfil Great Filial Piety?
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 one’s] father [and] mother’s meritorious virtues, with making offerings [to a] One Lifetime [To] Replacement Position’s Bodhisattva’s 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] living, then skilfully encourage [and] instruct, [to] lead them [to] uphold veg[etari]an fasting, [and] mindfulness [of the] 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 the 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 bid] long farewell [from the] six realms. [With] forbearance [that has] realised non-birth, [and] ground [that has] ascended [to] non-retrogression [in Pure Land].
[Note 1: Six realms (六趣): Also the six paths (六道): (i) hell path (地狱道), (ii) hungry ghost path (饿鬼道), (iii) animal path (畜生道), (iv) human path (人道), (v) asura path (阿修罗道), (vi) heavenly path (天道).]
[Note 2: 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，命自他以共成觉道。
[To the] utmost [of the] future period, with deliverance [and] liberation [of] sentient beings, instruction [of] oneself [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 Filiality As Root)
Namo Amituofo : Translation by Shen Shi’an
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