度生偈
Verses On Deliverance Of Sentient Beings
勿以帮众为度生，
未超轮回续死生。
所以劝诸往西生，
速了生死度他生。
Do not be with helping of sentient beings assumed as delivering of sentient beings, for if yet to transcend rebirth, there will be continuing of deaths and births. Therefore encouraging all to be reborn in the Western Pure Land, to swiftly be liberated from the cycle of birth and death, to deliver others to be born there too.
行善虽能得善生，
不如极乐土净生。
来后三世怨不生，
花开见佛悟无生。
Although practising good is able to attain good rebirths, this is not as good as to be in the Land Of Ultimate Bliss with pure births. In next and later lives, with the three lifetimes’ grievances not arising, with lotus flowers blossoming, see the Buddha and awaken to non-birth.
Related Explanatory Article:
Do Not Mistake Ordinary Helping As Actual Delivering Of Sentient Beings
https://thedailyenlightenment.com/2023/08/do-not-mistake-helping-as-delivering-sentient-beings
