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The Four Positions on Chan and Pure Land
Teachings of Yongming Yanshou
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With Chan and with Pure Land, one is like a tiger with horns—in this life a teacher of humankind, in the next a Buddha or patriarch. With Chan but without Pure Land, nine out of ten will stumble on the road—without a guide at the moment of death, even a master may lose the way. Without Chan but with Pure Land, if ten thousand practice, ten thousand will arrive—when Amitabha appears, one is born in the Western Land. Without Chan and without Pure Land, the iron bed and the copper pillars await—for ten thousand kalpas, no end to suffering.
Attribution
By Yongming Yanshou
Sources
Teachings of Yongming Yanshou: The Four Positions on Chan and Pure Land