如何「来生作佛祖」？
[246] How To ‘[In The] Future Life Become [A] Buddha’?
「有禅有净土，犹如戴角虎，现世为人师，来生作佛祖」者，其人彻悟禅宗，明心见性。
[On] those ‘With Chán [and] with Pure Land [practices, cultivators are] similar to tigers bearing horns. [In their] present lives as humans’ teachers, [in their] future lives becoming Buddhas’, these persons [have] thorough awakening [of the] Chán Tradition, understanding [their] minds [and] seeing [their] nature.
[Note 1: These teachings are on ‘Chán And Pure Land’s Fourfold Explanations’ 《禅净四料简》: https://purelanders.com/2009/12/15/brief-on-four-categories, especially the third verse.]
又复深入经藏，备知如来权实法门。而于诸法之中，又复唯以信愿念佛一法，以为自利利他通途正行。
Also again, deeply entering [the] sūtra treasury, [to] completely know [the] Thus Come [One’s] skilful [and] true Dharma Doors. And of all those Dharma [Doors] within, also again, only with Faith [and] Aspiration mindful [of the] Buddha[‘s name] [i.e. Āmítuófó (阿弥陀佛)], [this] one Dharma [Door], with [it] as self-benefitting [and] benefitting others’ common Main Practice.
《观经》上品上生，读诵大乘，解第一义者，即此是也。其人有大智慧，有大辩才。
Those [of the] ‘Contemplation Sūtra’s High Grade’s High Birth, [who] study [and] recite [the] Great Vehicle’s [sūtras, and] understand [the] supreme truth, are the same as these. These persons have great wisdom [and] have great eloquence.
邪魔外道，闻名丧胆。如虎之戴角，威猛无俦。
[With] evil demons [and those of] external paths, hearing [their] names, [then] losing [their] guts. Like tigers that bear horns, [with] power [and] boldness without compare.
有来学者，随机说法。应以禅净双修接者，则以禅净双修接之。应以专修净土接者，则以专修净土接之。无论上中下根，无一不被其泽，岂非人天导师乎？
[When there] are those coming [to] learn, according [to their] capacities speaking [the] Dharma. [For] those [who] should [be] with ‘Chán [And] Pure [Land] both cultivated’ received, then with ‘Chán [and] Pure [Land] both cultivated’ receiving them. [For] those [who] should [be] with focused cultivation [of] Pure Land [practice], then with focused cultivation [of] Pure Land [practice] receiving them. Regardless [of those with] high, middle [or] low roots, without one not by them benefitted, how can [they] not [be] human [and] heavenly [beings’] guiding teachers?
至临命终时，蒙佛接引，往生上品。一弹指顷，华开见佛，证无生忍。
When approaching [life’s] end, receiving [the] Buddha’s reception [and] guidance, [to be] reborn [in the] High Grade. [In] one snap [of the] fingers’ moment, [with] flowers blossoming seeing [the] Buddha, realising Non-Birth’s Forbearance.
最下即证圆教初住，亦有顿超诸位，至等觉者。圆教初住，即能现身百界作佛。
Those most low [will] immediately realise [the] Complete Teachings’ First Abode, also having [those] sudden surpassing all positions, [to] arrive [at] Equal Awakening. [Those of the] Complete Teachings’ First Abode, [are] immediately able [to] manifest bodies [in the] Hundred Realms [to] become Buddhas.
[Note 2: The Hundred Realms (百界) are the Ten Dharma Realms (十法界) times ten, as each one realm also has the Ten Dharma Realms within, in interconnected ways.]
[Note 3: Ten Dharma Realms (十法界): The Six Ordinary Realms (六凡) of (i) Hell Beings (地狱众生), (ii) Hungry Ghosts (饿鬼), (iii) Animals (畜生), (iv) Human Beings (人), (v) Asuras (阿修罗), (vi) Heavenly Beings (天人), and the Four Noble (Enlightened) Realms (四圣) of (vii) Voice-Hearers / Śrāvakas (声闻) / Arhats ([阿]罗汉), (viii) Pratyekabuddhas (辟支佛) / Those By Conditions Awakened (缘觉) / Lone Awakeners (独觉), (ix) Bodhisattvas (菩[提]萨[埵]) and (x) Buddhas (佛[陀]).]
何况此后，位位倍胜，直至第四十一等觉位乎？故曰「来生作佛祖」也。
What [is] more, after this, [with] position [after] position doubly superior, up until [the] Forty-First Equal Awakening’s Position? Thus saying, ‘[in their] future lives becoming Buddhas.’
净土宗十三祖印光大师
Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
《印光法师文钞》（正编）：净土决疑论；
Dharma Master Yìnguāng’s Collected Writings (First Compilation): Treatise [On] Pure Land’s Resolution [Of] Doubts;
印光大师文钞菁华录（第两百四十六则）：七、分禅净界限（第八则）
Record [Of] Great Master Yìnguāng’s Collected Writings’ Essence (246th Short Section): 7th Chapter: Differentiation Of Chán And Pure Land Traditions’ Boundaries (8th Short Section)
[Ref: #246 / 7.8]
Namo Amituofo : Translation and note by Shen Shi’an
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《印光大师文钞菁华录》
Record Of Great Master Yìnguāng’s Collected Writings’ Essence
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