读药方与真服药
Reading Prescriptions And Truly Taking Medicine
佛法大无不包，细无不举。
凡欲学者，当事实行。
否则如读药方而不服药，欲求病愈，何可得乎？
净土宗十三祖印光大师
《普劝学佛谭序》
The Buddha’s Dharma teachings are great without that not included, detailed without that not raised. All those who desire to learn it, should undertake true practice. Otherwise, like reading prescriptions, yet not taking medicine, desiring to seek sicknesses to recover, how can this be attained?
Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
Universal Encouragement To Learn Buddhism’s Discussion’s Preface
经名偈
Verses On Sūtras And Name
Reciting Pure Land Sūtras,
is like looking at prescriptions.
For knowing medicinal properties,
and how to take the medicine.
念弥陀名，
如真服药。
为生极乐，
如是解脱。
Reciting Āmítuófó’s name,
is like truly taking the medicine.
For birth in the Pure Land Of Ultimate Bliss,
to thus be liberated.
