如何无正念而得正念
娑婆众生，虽能念佛，浩浩见思，实未伏断。
而能垂终心不颠倒者，原非自力而能主持。
乃全仗弥陀，乘大愿船，而来拔济。
虽非正念，而能正念。
故得心不颠倒，即得往生。
天台宗三十祖幽溪传灯大师
《弥陀略解圆中钞》
How To Be Without Right Mindfulness Yet Attaining Right Mindfulness
[The] Sahā World’s sentient beings, although able [to be] mindful [of] Buddha, [have] torrential wrong views [and] thoughts, [that are] truly yet [to be] subdued [and] severed. Yet, [there are] those able [to, when] approaching [the] end [of life, have their] minds not inverted, [which is] truly not [with their] self-power then able [to] manage them. Thus, completely relying [upon A]mitā[bha Buddha], riding [on his] great vows’ ship [by sincere mindfulness of his name with Faith and Aspiration, who] then comes [to] pull up [and] save them. Although not [having] Right Mindfulness, then able [to have] Right Mindfulness. Thus attaining minds not inverted, [to] immediately attain rebirth [in his Pure Land].
Tiāntái Tradition’s 30th Patriarch Great Master Yōuxī Chuándēng
Collection [On] Brief Explanations [Of A]mitā[bha Sūtra’s] Complete Middle [Path]
