净土之鸟如何奇特？
[32] How Are Pure Land’s Birds Special?
壬二、征释略显
I2: Inquiries [And] Explanations’ Brief Clarifications
【经】: 舍利弗，汝勿谓此鸟，实是罪报所生。所以者何？彼佛国土，无三恶道。舍利弗，其佛国土，尚无恶道之名，何况有实？是诸众鸟，皆是阿弥陀佛，欲令法音宣流，变化所作。
[Sūtra]: Śāriputra, you [should] not say these birds,really are those [from] transgressive retribution born. Why [is] that [so]? That Buddha Land [is] without [the] three evil paths. Śāriputra, that Buddha Land [is] even without names of [the] evil paths, much less having [their] reality. All these many birds, are all Amitā Buddha, [who] desires [to] enable [the] Dharma’s sounds [to be] propagated, [with] transformations [of] those created.
【解】: 征释可知。
[Explanation]: [The] inquiries [and] explanations can [be] known [here].
问：「白鹤」等非恶道名耶？
Question: [Are the] ‘White Cranes’ [and] others not evil paths’ names?
答：既非罪报，则一一名字，皆诠如来究竟功德。
Answer: Since not [from] transgressions’ retribution, then [do] each [and every] one [of their] names, all explain [the] Thus Come [One’s] ultimate meritorious virtues.
所谓究竟「白鹤」等，无非性德美称，岂恶名哉？
[As these] so-called ultimate ‘White Cranes’ [and] others, [are] without [those] not [as] Nature’s Virtues’ beautiful names, how [can they be] evil names?
问：化作众鸟何义？
Question: [The] manifesting [to] become many birds [has] what meaning?
答：有四悉檀因缘：
Answer: [This] has [the] Four Siddhāntas [i.e. teaching methods] [as] causes [and] conditions.
凡情喜此诸鸟，顺情而化，令欢喜故；
[1] [As] ordinary [beings’] affections like all these birds, according [to their] affections then transforming, [to] enable joy thus.
[Note 1: This is the Worldly Siddhānta (世界悉檀).]
鸟尚说法，令闻生善故；
[2] [As the] birds also speak [the] Dharma, [to] enable listening [to] grow good [roots] thus.
[Note 2: This is the Individual Siddhānta (为人悉檀).]
不于鸟起下劣想，对治分别心故；
[3] [As] not from [these] birds giving rise [to] lowly [and] inferior thoughts, [to] cure [the] differentiating mind thus.
[Note 3: This is the Curative Siddhānta (对治悉檀).]
鸟即弥陀，令悟法身平等，无不具、无不造故。
[4] [As the] birds [are] thus [Ā]mítuó[fó, to] enable awakening [to the] Dharma Body’s equality, without [the Dharma] not complete, [and] without [the Dharma] not created thus.
[Note 4: This is the Supreme Truth’s Siddhānta (第一义悉檀).]
此中显微风、树、网等音，及一切依正假实，当体即是阿弥陀佛三身四德，毫无差别也。
These manifested gentle breezes, trees, nets [and] other sounds within, and all Circumstantial [and] Direct [Rewards] false [and] true, presently [with their] bodies, thus are Amitā Buddha’s Three Bodies [and] Four Virtues, not [in the] least different.
[Note 5:
Three Bodies (Trikāya: 三身):
(1) Manifestation Bodies (Nirmāṇakāya: 化身)
(2) Reward Body (Saṃbhogakāya: 报身)
(3) Dharma Body (Dharmakāya: 法身)
Four Virtues (四德):
(1) Purity (净)
(2) Bliss (乐)
(3) Permanence (常)
(4) (True) Self (我)]
– 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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Complete English Translation Of The Essential Explanation Of The Sūtra In Which The Buddha Speaks Of Amitābha Buddha
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