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 vow [i.e. give rise to Aspiration], vowing [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’ [here].
唯补处居因位之极，故云「上」，其数甚多，故云「诸」。
Only [those in the] Replacement Position, [who] dwell [in the] ultimate of causative positions, [are] thus called ‘superior’. [As] their number [is] extremely many, [they are] thus called ‘all’.
「俱会一处」，犹言凡圣同居。
‘Together meet [in] one place’, [is] to] say [being 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 [Ones (on the path to Arhathood or as Arhats) in the] past having karma [with] outflows, [and] Expedient Noble [Ones (on the path to Buddhahood or as Buddhas) having] vows [with] great loving-kindness [and] compassion, thus [are] ordinary beings [able to], with [these] noble persons together dwell.
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 [Ones have] ash bodies [upon departing when afflictions of body and mind are severed, and] Expedient Noble [Ones’] opportunities exhaust, [ordinary beings] then [karmically] rise [and] sink [with] big differences, [having] suffering [and] bliss [with] great disparity, [being] only temporarily together [with the Noble Ones], not ultimately together.
又天壤之间，见闻者少；
Also, of heaven [and] earth between, those [who] see [and] hear [them are] few.
幸获见闻，亲近步趋者少。
[If] fortunate [to] obtain seeing [and] hearing [of them], those [who] go close [with] steps towards [them are even] few[er].
又佛世圣人纵多，如珍如瑞，不能遍满国土，如众星微尘。
Also, [when the] Buddha [was in this] world, noble persons although many, [were] like treasures [and] like [that] auspicious, not able [to] fully pervade [the] land, like many stars [which are like scattered] dust motes.
又居虽同，而所作所办，则迥不同。
Also, dwelling although together [with them], yet that become [and] that done, thus [are] vastly not the same.
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 karma without outflows, inducing birth, [to] together meet [in] one place, as teachers [and] friends, like ocarinas [and] like flutes [playing in harmony], together exhausting ignorance, together ascending [towards] wonderful awakening [as Buddhas].
是则下凡众生，于念不退中，超尽四十一因位。
[They] are thus lower ordinary sentient beings, with Mindfulness’ Non-Retrogression within, transcending completely 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 Great] 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 [at] One Life [To] Replace [Buddhas’] Position, yet [they] can [be] named [as] ‘ordinary beings’, [and] cannot [be] named [as] ‘Equally Awakened Bodhisattvas’.
此皆教网所不能收，刹网所不能例。
These [are] all that [the] teachings’ net [are] not able [to] gather together, that [all other] lands’ nets [are] not able [to as] exceptions.
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 [to attain Buddhahood, the] one barrier [of being ‘trapped’ in a limiting] Together Dwelling [Land like ours, is the] most difficult [to be] thoroughly liberated [from].
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 [with] Together Dwelling Lands.
– 净土宗九祖澫益大师
《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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