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title: "淨土十要 · 四花輪大小者"
description: "淨土十要由明代高僧成時大師評點節要，匯集了淨土宗歷代祖師的核心著述。該書輯錄了智者大師、善導大師等十種淨土教典精要，系統闡述了念佛往生西方極樂世界的理論與方法。其編撰於明末佛教復興期，旨在匡正禪淨流弊、彰顯淨土他力易行道。作為淨土宗根本教典之一，該書被譽為修學淨土法門的權威指南，在漢傳佛教中具有崇高地位，是深入理解淨土思想不可或缺的重要文獻。"
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### 四花輪大小者

> Four Flowers Wheel: Large and Small

小本。池中蓮華大如車輪。觀經。一一池中有六十億七寶蓮華。團圓正等十二由旬。大本。池中蓮華或一由旬乃至百千由旬。夫人世車輪大不逾丈。輪王千輻縱廣不過一由旬。何得相懸乃爾。釋。花輪大小亦如身城。以眾生機有大小。故身城水樹現有大小。蓮華亦然。如初地見佛百葉花。二地見千葉。三地萬葉。四地億葉等。以自受用身有大小故。見花亦爾。如此方阿育王舍利塔。眾生見者有無大小顏色處所動定光明及與異相無量差別。同一肉眼所見尚異。何況菩薩．聲聞．人天等功用懸絕。所感花輪焉得不殊。如剎利貴種。飛樓傑閣徧滿城邑。寒微煢子敝茅土窟。乃至不得。是自福德所招故。寶池花相應亦如是。

> Smaller Text: The lotus flowers in the pond are as large as carriage wheels. Contemplation Sutra: Each pond contains sixty billion lotus flowers made of seven treasures, perfectly round and precisely twelve yojanas in diameter. Larger Text: The lotus flowers in the pond range in size from one yojana to hundreds of thousands of yojanas. Now, in the human world, carriage wheels are no larger than a few feet. The thousand-spoked wheel of a universal monarch is at most one yojana in diameter. So why is there such an enormous difference? Explanation: The size of the lotus flowers and the ground corresponds to the size of the practitioner’s realized body and mind. Because beings have different capacities, the bodies, palaces, waters, and trees they perceive vary in size—and so do the lotus flowers. For example, when a bodhisattva on the first ground sees the Buddha, the lotus has a hundred petals; on the second ground, a thousand petals; on the third, ten thousand; on the fourth, a hundred million, and so on. Because the Buddha’s enjoyment body appears in different sizes to different practitioners, the lotus they see also varies accordingly. This is similar to how, in this world, people viewing King Ashoka’s relic stupa see it differently: some see it, some don’t; some see it large, some small; some perceive different colors, locations, movements, stillness, radiance, and countless other variations. Even among ordinary people with the same physical eyes, what they see differs. How much more so between bodhisattvas, voice-hearers, humans, and devas, whose spiritual attainments are vastly different? The lotus wheels they perceive naturally cannot be the same. A noble warrior family lives grandly, with towering pavilions filling the city. A poor, lonely person cannot even afford a thatched hut. This is all due to their own accumulated merit. The same principle applies to the lotus flowers in the jeweled ponds.