如何「万修万人去」？
[247] How [To Be ‘With] Ten Thousand [Cultivators, With] Ten Thousand Persons Going [To Pure Land]’?
「无禅有净土，万修万人去，若得见弥陀，何愁不开悟」者，其人虽未明心见性，却复决志求生西方。
[Of] those ‘Without Chán [and] with Pure Land [practice, of] ten thousand [cultivators], ten thousand persons [will] go [to Pure Land]. If attaining sight [of A]mitā[bha Buddha], why worry [about] not awakening’, these people, although yet [to] understand [their] minds [and] see [their] nature, but again [are with] determined Aspiration [to] seek birth [in the] Western [Pure Land Of Ultimate Bliss] [西方极乐世界].
[Note: 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 second verse.]
以佛于往劫，发大誓愿，摄受众生，「如母忆子」。众生果能如子忆母，志诚念佛，则感应道交，即蒙摄受。
With [the] Buddha in past kalpas, [having] given rise [to] great vows, [to] gather [and] receive sentient beings, ‘like [a] mother recollecting [her] child’, sentient beings, if able [to be] like children recollecting [their] mother, [with] sincere [and] wholehearted mindfulness [of the] Buddha[‘s name] [i.e. Āmítuófó (阿弥陀佛)], [will] then [have] connection [and] response [for] mutual interaction, [to] immediately receive [his] gathering [and] reception.
力修定慧者，固得往生。
Those diligently cultivating concentration [and] wisdom, [will] certainly attain rebirth [in Pure Land].
即五逆十恶，临终苦逼，发大惭愧，称念佛名，或至十声，或止一声，直下命终，亦皆蒙佛化身，接引往生。非「万修万人去」乎？
Even if [those with the] five heinous [transgressions [and] ten evil [karmas], approaching [life’s] end [and by] suffering compelled, give rise [to] great repentance, [and] recite [the] Buddha’s name, perhaps to ten recitations, or only one recitation, directly descending [to] life’s end, [they will] also all receive [the] Buddha’s manifested bodies, [to] receive [and] guide [them to be] reborn [in his Pure Land. Is this] not ‘[of] ten thousand cultivators, ten thousand persons [will] go [to Pure Land]’?
然此虽念佛无几，以极其猛烈，故能获此巨益。不得以泛泛悠悠者，校量其多少也。
Thus, these, although [with] mindfulness [of] Buddha not much, with [the] utmost [of] their vigour, [are] thus able [to] obtain these great benefits. [There] must not [be] with those [practising] superficially [and] leisurely, comparing [with] them [having] more [or] less.
既生西方，见佛闻法，虽有迟速不同，然已高预圣流，永不退转。
Already born [in the] Western [Pure Land], seeing [the] Buddha [and] hearing [the] Dharma, although having slowness [or] quickness not [the] same, however already [with] high entry [into the] noble stream, forever not retrogressing.
随其根性浅深，或渐或顿，证诸果位。既得证果，则开悟不待言矣。所谓「若得见弥陀，何愁不开悟」也。
According [to] their root natures shallow [or] deep, perhaps gradually or suddenly, realising all fruits’ positions. Already attaining realisation [of] fruits, then awakening [does] not need [to be] spoken [of. This is] so-called, ‘If attaining sight [of A]mitā[bha Buddha], why worry [about] not awakening?’
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（第两百四十七则）：七、分禅净界限（第九则）
Record [Of] Great Master Yìnguāng’s Collected Writings’ Essence (247th Short Section): 7th Chapter: Differentiation Of Chán And Pure Land Traditions’ Boundaries (9th Short Section)
[Ref: #247 / 7.9]
Namo Amituofo : Translation and note by Shen Shi’an
相关典籍
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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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