Master Yinguang’s Short Teaching about “the respective gain and loss of exclusive and mixed practices”
印光大師法語「專雜得失」之文
The Great Master Shandao was an incarnation of Amitabha Buddha, who has infinite wisdom and great paranormal powers. He expounds the teaching of the two kinds of cultivation for rebirth, namely exclusive and mixed practices, and renders boundless benefits to us.
Exclusive practice refers to: exclusive prostration (bodily karma), exclusive recitation (oral karma), and exclusive recollection (mental karma). By doing so, no one will miss out on attaining rebirth in the West.
Mixed practices refer to a variety of teachings that are dedicated to rebirth.
Because the mind is neither pristine nor single, it is difficult to gain true benefits. Only as few as one or two out of a hundred, and three to four out of a thousand can be reborn.
This is a sincere teaching given by the Buddhas, and the unchanging truth.
善導和尚是彌陀化身，有大智慧，有大神通，其所示專雜二修，其利無窮。
專修謂「身業專禮，口業專稱，意業專念」。
如是則往生西方，萬不漏一。
雜修謂兼修種種法門，迴向往生。
以心不純一，故難得益，則百中稀得一二，千中稀得三四往生者。
此金口誠言，千古不易之鐵案也。
Namo Amituofo!
