[121] 为什么不能以「念念在净土，方可往生」教中下根人？
[121] Why [There] Cannot [Be] With ‘Thought [To] Thought On Pure Land, Then Can [There Be] Rebirth’ Teaching Middle [And] Low Roots’ Persons?
◎ 念念在净土，方可往生，乃上品往生者之身分。
◎ [Summary]: [On ‘with] thought [to] thought on Pure Land, then can [there be] rebirth’, thus [are the] identities of those [with] High Grades’ rebirths.
念念在净土，方可往生，乃上品往生者之身分。
[On ‘with] thought [to] thought on Pure Land, then can [there be] rebirth’, thus [are the] identities of those [with] High Grades’ rebirths.
若执定此义，以自求上品，何善如之？
If holding definitely [to] this meaning, with personal seeking [of a] High Grade, what good [is] like this?
若执定此义，以教中下根人，则阻人胜进不浅。何以故？
If holding definitely [to] this meaning, with [it] teaching Middle [and] Low Roots’ persons, then [is] hindering [of] others’ superior progress not shallow. Why thus?
以彼必以为此法太高，遂以卑劣自居，不肯修持耳。
With those definitely assuming this Dharma [is] too high, thereupon with considering [of] themselves [to be] lowly [and] inferior, not [being] willing [to] practise.
《复濮大凡居士书》
Reply Letter [To] Layperson Pú Dàfán
净土宗十三祖印光大师著
Written [By] Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
《印光法师答念佛600问》
Dharma Master Yìnguāng’s Answers [For] Mindfulness [Of] Buddha’s 600 Questions
传印法师鉴定
Evaluated [By] Dharma Master Chuányìn
Námó Āmítuófó : Translation by Shen Shi’an
