为何在极乐净土俱会？
[40] Why Meet Together In The Pure Land Of Ultimate Bliss?
丙二、特劝
C2: Special Exhortation
【经】：舍利弗，众生闻者，应当发愿，愿生彼国。所以者何？得与如是诸上善人，俱会一处。
[Sūtra]: Śāriputra, those sentient beings [who] hear [this], should give rise [to the] Aspiration [i.e. Vow], aspiring [to be] born [in] that land. Why [is] that [so? To] attain [being] with all such superior good persons, together meeting [in] one place.
【解】: 前「罗汉」、「菩萨」，但可云「善人」。
[Explanation]: [The] preceding ‘Arhats’ [and] ‘Bodhisattvas’, only can [be] called ‘good persons’.
唯补处居因位之极，故云「上」，其数甚多，故云「诸」。
Only [those in One Life To] Replacement’s Position dwelling [in the] utmost of causative positions, [are] therefore called ‘superior’. [As] their number [is] extremely many, [they are] therefore called ‘all’.
「俱会一处」，犹言凡圣同居。
‘Together meeting [in] one place’, [is] like saying [in the] Ordinary [And] Noble [Beings’] Together Dwelling [Land].
寻常，由实圣过去有漏业，权圣大慈悲愿，故凡夫得与圣人同居。
Usually, due [to] True Noble [Beings] [i.e. on the path to Arhathood or as Arhats] [in the] past having karmas [with] outflows, [and] Skilful Means’ Noble [Beings] [i.e. on the path to Buddhahood or as Buddhas] [having] vows [with] great loving-kindness [and] compassion, therefore [are] ordinary beings [able to] attain, [to be] with noble persons together dwelling.
至实圣灰身，权圣机尽，便升沉硕异，苦乐悬殊，乃暂同，非究竟同也。
Until True Noble [Beings have] ash bodies [i.e. relinquish their physical forms and are cremated], [and] Skilful Means’ Noble [Beings’] opportunities [i.e. to guide] exhaust, [ordinary beings] then [i.e. karmically] rise [and] sink [with] great differences, [having] suffering [and] bliss far apart, [they are] thus temporarily [with noble persons] together [only], not ultimately together.
又天壤之间，见闻者少；
Also, of [the] sky [and] earth between, those [who] see [and] hear [them are] few.
幸获见闻，亲近步趋者少。
Those fortunate [to] obtain seeing [and] hearing [of them, who] get close [to] follow [their] steps [are] few.
又佛世圣人纵多，如珍如瑞，不能遍满国土，如众星微尘。
Also, [in the] Buddha’s lifetime, noble persons, although many, [were] like [those] precious [and] like [those] auspicious, not able [to] everywhere fill [the] land, like all stars [and] fine dust.
又居虽同，而所作所办，则迥不同。
Also, [with] dwelling although together, yet that become [and] that done, [are] then different, not together.
今同以无漏不思议业，感生俱会一处，为师友，如埙如篪，同尽无明，同登妙觉。
Now, together with inconceivable karmas without outflows, connecting [to be] born, together meeting [in] one place, as teachers [and] friends, like ocarinas [and] like flutes [i.e. playing in harmony], together ending ignorance, [and] together ascending [to] Wonderful Awakening [i.e. as Buddhas].
是则下凡众生，于念不退中，超尽四十一因位。
[These] are then lower ordinary sentient beings, with Mindfulness’ Non-Retrogression within, completely transcending [the] forty-one causative positions.
[Note: If counting from Complete Teaching’s (圆教) First Abode (初住), the forty-one positions are the Ten Abodes (十住), Ten Practices (十行), Ten Dedications (十回向), Ten Grounds (十地) and Equal Awakening (等觉).]
若谓是凡夫，却不历异生，必补佛职，与观音、势至无别；
If saying [they] are ordinary beings, yet not passing through [a] different life, [they will] definitely replace Buddhas’ posts, with Contemplator [Of] Sounds, [and] Power Arrived [Bodhisattvas] without difference.
若谓是一生补处，却可名凡夫，不可名等觉菩萨。
If saying [they] are One Life [To] Replacement’s Position, yet [they] can [be] named [as] ordinary beings, [and] cannot [be] named [as] Equal Awakening Bodhisattvas.
此皆教网所不能收，刹网所不能例。
This [is] that all teachings’ net [is] not able [to] gather together, that [all other] lands’ net [is] not able [to] exemplify.
当知吾人大事因缘，同居一关，最难透脱。
[It] should [be] known [that for] our great matter’s cause [and] condition [i.e. to attain Buddhahood], Together Dwelling [Land, this] one pass, [is the] most difficult [to] penetrate [for] liberation.
唯极乐同居，超出十方同居之外。
Only [the Land Of] Ultimate Bliss’ Together Dwelling [Land], transcends [the] ten directions’ places of Together Dwelling.
– 净土宗九祖蕅益大师
《佛说阿弥陀经要解》
– Pure Land Tradition’s 9th Patriarch Great Master Ǒuyì
(Essential Explanation [Of The] Sūtra [In Which The] Buddha Speaks [Of] Amitā[bha] Buddha)
Namo Amituofo : Translation and notes by Shen Shi’an
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