净土宗比禅宗，相宗与密宗更稳当
[151] [The] Pure Land Tradition [Is] More Reliable [Than The] Chán, Form And Esoteric Traditions
近来人每每好高务胜，稍聪明，便学禅宗、相宗、密宗，多多将念佛看得无用。
Recently, people [are] often fond [of going] ‘higher’ [and] pursuing [the] ‘superior’, [with those] slightly ‘cleverer’, then learning [the] Chán Tradition, [Dharma] Form Tradition [法相宗] [and] Esoteric Tradition. Extremely many [are] with mindfulness [of] Buddha seen [to] be useless.
彼只知禅家机语之玄妙，相宗法相之精微，密宗威神之广大。
Those only know [the] profound wonders of [the] Chán school’s opportune words, [the] subtleties of [the] Form Tradition’s dharma forms, [the] vastness [and] greatness of [the] Esoteric Tradition’s majestic supernormal [powers].
而不知禅纵到大彻大悟地位，若烦惑未净，则依旧生死不了。
Yet, [they do] not know [that with the] Chán [Tradition], even if reaching great penetration [and] great awakening’s position, if [with] afflictions [and] confusions yet [to be] purified, [they are] then as before, [in the cycle of] birth [and] death not liberated.
相宗不破尽我法二执，则纵明白种种名相，如说食数宝，究有何益？
[With the] Form Tradition, not completely destroying self [and] dharmas’ two attachments, then even if understanding all kinds [of] names [and] forms, like speaking [about] food [and] counting treasures, [this] in the end, has what benefits?
密宗虽云现身可以成佛，然能成者，决非博地凡夫之事。凡夫妄生此想，则着魔发狂者，十有八九也。
[With the] Esoteric Tradition, although saying [this] present life can accomplish Buddhahood, however, those able [to] accomplish [it, are] definitely not [with the] practices of thin ground’s ordinary beings. [Of] those ordinary beings [who] falsely give rise [to] this thought, then possessed [by] demons [to] go mad, [in] ten are eight [or] nine.
是以必须专志于念佛一门，为千稳万当之无上第一法则也。
Therefore, [there] must [be] focused Aspiration with mindfulness [of] Buddha, [this] one [Dharma] Door, as [the] unsurpassable foremost method, that is [a] thousand [times more] secure [and] ten thousand [times more] appropriate.
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》（续编）：复姚维一书；
Dharma Master Yìnguāng’s Collected Writings (Second Compilation): First Reply Letter [To] Yáo Wéi;
印光大师文钞菁华录（第一百五十一则）：三、示修持方法：戊、评修持各法（第十四则）
Record [Of] Great Master Yìnguāng’s Collected Writings’ Essence (151st Short Section): 3rd [Chapter]: Guidance [On] Practice Methods: Fifth, Reviews [On] Practices’ Each Method (14th Short Section)
[Ref: #151 / 3.5.14]
Namo Amituofo : Translation and notes 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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