28) 心念心聽持名

　　Self-Nature Recitation, Self-Nature Listening

　　The m ind begins to think, which moves the tongue; the tongue in turn moves, producing sound, and that sound returns to the Self-Mind. This is the method of “m ind reciting, m ind listening.” If the m ind recites and listens, the eyes cannot see wrongly, the nose cannot sme l wrongly, the body cannot move wrongly because the master (the mind) has been “kidnapped” by the words “Amitabha Buddha”.

　　心憶而後動于舌，舌動而複返于心，舌既有聲，耳還自聽，是爲心念心聽(注二)也。 心念心聽，則目自不能妄視，鼻自不能妄嗅，身自不能妄動，一個主人翁，被阿彌陀 佛四字請出來也。

　　Commentary

　　To recite the Buddha”s name is to recite the Buddha of the Self-Mind; the ears hearing the Buddha”s name actua ly hear the Self-Mind. The sound comes from the Self-Mind and returns to the Self-Mind, turning around and around in a circle. Not even a bit of deluded thought remains, and as a result, all mundane dusts, all deluded realms disappear.

　　Recite the Buddha”s name, recite the Mind, The M ind recites the Buddha;

　　Meditate, Meditate on the Self-Nature,

　　The Self-Nature meditates.