A Verse sharing Compassionate Advice and Cautions quoted from ‘In Praise of Pratyutpanna’ by Master Shandao
善導大師《般舟讚》慈悲勸誡
The adornments of the Pure Land are infinite.
Countless beings, from the worlds in the ten directions, will be reborn there.
All beings from past eons, in the hundreds and thousands, as many as the sands in the Ganges River.
It doesn’t matter how many. All can be reborn there and accommodated.
Actually, the number of sentient beings in the ten directions does not increase.
Neither does Amitabha’s Buddha-land diminish.
淨土莊嚴無有盡,十方生者亦無窮,
千劫萬劫恒沙劫,一切去者不相妨,
十方眾生未曾減,彌陀佛國亦無增。
Namo Amituofo!
