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English version: If one's state of mind is not yet empty, and feelings of hatred and love still remain, yet one opens one's mouth to speak grandly about the supramundane state of a great sage, denying the Buddha-lands and belittling rebirth [in the Pure Land], this can be said to be deceiving Heaven and deluding people, willingly blinding oneself. How lamentable! How lamentable! 'Furthermore, if you possess great strength and great vows, willing to immerse yourself in the sea of birth and death, practicing the Bodhisattva path without fear, then I will not force you to be reborn in the Pure Land. Perhaps you worry about this world, that the environment is perilous and difficult to control; worry that it is difficult to encounter the Buddhas when they appear in the world, and there is no path for cultivation; worry that your endurance is not firm enough to deliver sentient beings in the dangerous realms of the Three Realms; worry that even if you exhaust this life, you may not be able to permanently sever birth and death, and not receive future existences; worry that since future existences exist, abandoning this body and accepting the next, the road ahead is vast and unknown. Then abandoning the Pure Land and not being reborn there is no small loss. 'This Pure Land Dharma-door seems shallow yet is profound, seems near yet is far, seems difficult yet is easy, seems easy yet is difficult; one day you will naturally understand. Now you practice Chan (Zen), recite the Buddha's name, you may as well choose any one and delve deeply into it. But avoid mistaking brass for gold, being content with little, like looking at the sky through a tube, gaining a little understanding and then arbitrarily making wild comments, even slandering the Pure Land. This is like a foolish and mad child, scolding his parents; although the parents are compassionate and do not blame him, how can it be tolerated by the principles of Heaven, and how can the laws of the king not punish him? The retribution of those who make wild comments is also like this. How fearful! How lamentable!' Postscript to 'Doubts and Discriminations on the Pure Land' Layman Weixiu propagated Daoist learning in Jingjiang, with the style of singing songs in Wucheng. After retiring from office, he devoted himself to studying the Avatamsaka Sutra (Huayan Jing), engraving the Sanskrit version into books for easy reading and learning; and he also promoted and praised the Pure Land Dharma-door, engraving my book 'Doubts and Discriminations on the Pure Land' for wide circulation. He both revered the Ten Profound Gates (Shi Xuan Men: ten profound gates, the ten kinds of mysterious theories of the Huayan school to explain the relationship between the universe and all dharmas) of the Avatamsaka Sutra and longed for the realm of the Nine Lotuses (Jiu Lian Zhi Yu: refers to the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss), it can be said that he deeply conformed to the vows of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva (Puxian Pusa), and subtly entered the nature-sea of Vairocana Buddha (Piluzhena Fo). It is a pity that he died young, and Cao Luchuan did not get to see him. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------