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title: "佛祖綱目 · 慧遠法師結蓮社"
description: "佛祖綱目是明代朱時恩所著的一部佛教经典汇编，成书于明朝万历年间。该书系统梳理了佛教历代祖师的法脉传承与重要教义，内容涵盖禅宗、净土宗等多个宗派的核心思想，并收录了大量高僧大德的言行事迹。朱時恩以纲目体例编撰，条理清晰，便于研习。作为明代重要的佛教文献，佛祖綱目不仅保存了珍贵的佛教史料，也为后世研究中国佛教发展提供了重要参考。该书在佛教史上具有承前启后的地位，是了解汉传佛教传承体系的重要典籍之一。"
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### 庚寅慧遠法師結蓮社

> <note>Gengyin year</note> Master Huiyuan founded the White Lotus Society

晉室式微。天下奇才。絕俗之士。多隱居不仕。來歸慧遠。遠曰。諸君倘有心。淨土之遊。宜加勉勵。於是率眾共結蓮社。一心念佛。期生淨土。令劉程之。著發願文。而王喬之等。復為念佛三昧詩。以見志。遠序曰。念佛三昧者何。思專想寂之謂。思專則志一不撓。想寂則氣虗神朗。氣虗則智恬其照。神朗則無幽不徹。斯二乃是自然之玄符。會一而致用也。是故靖恭閒宇而感物。通靈御心。惟正動而入微。此假修以凝神。積習以移性。猶或若茲。況夫尸居坐忘。冥懷至極。智落宇宙。而暗蹈大方者哉。請言其始。菩薩初登道位。甫窺玄門。體寂無為。而無弗為及其神變也。則令修短葺常度。巨細互相違。三光迴景。以移照。天地卷而入懷矣。又諸三昧。其名甚眾。功高易進。念佛為先。窮玄極微。尊號如來。神體合變。應不以方。故令入斯定者。昧然忘知。即所緣以成鑒。鑒明則內照交映。而色像生焉。非耳目之所暨。而聞見行焉。於是覩夫淵凝虗鏡之體。則悟靈相。湛一清明。自然察玄音之叩。心聽則塵累每消。滯情融朗。非天下之至玅。孰能與於此。以茲而觀。一覿之感。乃發久習之深覆。豁昬習之重迷。若匹夫眾定之所緣。故不得與其優劣。居可知也。是以奉誡諸賢。咸思一揆之契感。寸陰之頹景。懼來儲之未積。於是洗心法堂。整衿清向。夜分忘𥨊。夙宵惟勒。庶夫貞詣之功。以通三乘之志。臨津濟物。與九流而同往。仰援超步。拔茆之興。俯引約進。秉䇿其後。以覧眾篇之揮翰。豈徒文詠而已哉○釋慧巍。山居禪定。山鬼現種種形。皆隨巍點化而隱。時大雪。有一女子。姿容婉媚。衣服鮮麗。來白巍曰。上人有德。天遣我來。以相慰諭。因說種種欲言。巍一心不動。乃謂女曰。吾心若死灰。無以革囊見試。女遂凌雲而去。顧嘆曰。海水可竭。須彌可傾。彼上人者。秉志堅貞。

> As the Jin dynasty declined, many extraordinary people and those who had transcended worldly concerns chose to live in seclusion rather than serve as officials. They came to seek refuge with Huiyuan. Huiyuan said, "If you all have the aspiration to journey to the Pure Land, you should redouble your efforts." So he led everyone to form the White Lotus Society, wholeheartedly practicing Buddha Recitation, aspiring to be reborn in the Pure Land. He asked Liu Chengzhi to write a "Vow Text," and Wang Qiaozhi and others composed poems on the Buddha Recitation Samādhi to express their resolve. Huiyuan wrote in the preface: "What is the Buddha Recitation Samādhi? It means focused thought and stilled reflection. When thought is focused, the will is unified and unshaken. When reflection is stilled, the vital energy becomes empty and the spirit becomes luminous. When energy is empty, wisdom rests calmly in its illumination. When spirit is luminous, there is nothing hidden that is not penetrated. These two are naturally profound tokens that unite as one to serve their function. Therefore, one sits respectfully at ease in a quiet dwelling and responds to things, connecting with the numinous and mastering the mind. Only through correctness does one move into the subtle. Even relying on practice to concentrate the spirit and accumulating habit to transform one's nature can still bring about such results—how much more so for one who dwells in stillness like a corpse, sits in forgetfulness, and silently embraces the ultimate, with wisdom extending throughout the universe while treading unknowingly in the Great Direction! "Let me speak of its beginning. When a bodhisattva first enters the stage of the path and has just glimpsed the mysterious gate, they realize stillness and non-doing, yet there is nothing they do not do. When their spiritual transformations occur, they can make the long short and the constant change, make the great and small mutually invert, turn back the light of the sun, moon, and stars to shift their illumination, and roll up heaven and earth into their embrace. "Furthermore, there are many kinds of samādhi, with countless names. Among those of high merit and easy progress, Buddha Recitation comes first. Penetrating the mysterious and exhausting the subtle, the honored name is Tathāgata. The spiritual body adapts and transforms, responding without fixed direction. Therefore, one who enters this samādhi is dimly unaware, forgetful of knowing, and takes whatever is at hand as a mirror. When the mirror is bright, inner illumination reflects back and forth, and forms and images arise. Though beyond the reach of ears and eyes, hearing and seeing proceed through it. Then one beholds the deeply settled, empty-mirror body, and awakens to the spiritual mark—profoundly unified, clear and bright. Naturally one perceives the striking of mysterious sound. When the mind listens, defilements and burdens dissolve, and stagnant feelings melt into clarity. Were it not for the utmost subtlety under heaven, what could compare to this? "Viewed in this way, a single encounter's impression can unfold deeply buried habits accumulated over long ages and open up the heavy delusion of benighted habit. As for what ordinary people encounter in various samādhis, they cannot compare in superiority or inferiority—this much is clear. "Therefore, I exhort all worthy ones to all reflect on this single principle and its profound resonance. Sensing how the fleeting moments of time decline like a sinking sun, and fearing that future provisions have not yet been accumulated, they wash their hearts in the Dharma hall, straighten their robes, and face purely toward the Pure Land. In the depths of night they forget sleep, and from dawn to dusk they exert themselves. May their sincere and devoted efforts fulfill the aspiration for the Three Vehicles. Standing at the ford to ferry beings across, they go forward together with the nine streams. Looking up, they support those who leap ahead and pull them beyond; looking down, they guide those who advance with restraint, holding the whip behind them. In perusing the brushwork displayed in all these compositions, how could it be merely literary recitation? Śramaṇa Huiwei lived in the mountains practicing meditation. Mountain spirits appeared in various forms, but all were transformed by Huiwei's guidance and disappeared. Once there was a great snowfall, and a woman of delicate and charming appearance, dressed in bright and beautiful clothes, came to say to Huiwei, "Venerable one, you have virtue. Heaven has sent me to comfort and encourage you." She then spoke all sorts of words of desire. With his mind unmoved, Huiwei said to the woman, "My mind is like dead ashes. Do not test me with this bag of skin." The woman then rose into the clouds and departed, looking back with a sigh: "The ocean's waters may dry up, Mount Sumeru may topple, but that venerable one holds his resolve firm and steadfast."