GOSHO 立正安国論30 正しく一凶の所帰を明かす七

又最後結句(けっく)の文に云く「夫(そ)れ速(すみや)かに生死(しょうじ)を離れんと欲せば、二種の勝法(しょうほう)の中に且(しばら)く聖道門を閣(さしお)きて選(えら)んで浄土門に入(はい)れ、

Finally, in a concluding passage, Hōnen says: “If one wishes to escape quickly from the sufferings of birth and death, one should confront these two superior teachings and then proceed to put aside the teachings of the Sacred Way and choose those of the Pure Land.

The last prat of The Sole selection of Nembutsu concludes: if one wishes to immediately liberate himself from the sufferings of birth and death, then of the two prominent doctrines, he should first set aside the gateway of the sacred path, and then select and enter the gateway of the pure land.

浄土門に入らんと欲せば、正雑(しょうざつ)二行の中に且(しばら)く諸(もろもろ)の雑行を抛(なげう)ちて選んで応(まさ)に正行に帰すべし」已上。

And if one wishes to follow the teachings of the Pure Land, one should confront the correct and sundry practices and then proceed to abandon all of the sundry and devote one’s entire attention to the correct.”

Once he enters the gateway of the pure land and determines to practice, he must reject all the miscellaneous practices in favor of the correct one and devote himself exclusively to the correct practice.


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