放下屠刀，立地成佛（即一念清净，心无所著，不论过去有无善根而言）一语，成为今日僧俗之口头禅。但弥陀经云：不可以少善根福德因缘得生彼国。及楞严经六结之喻二点佛理而论，放下屠刀固能成佛，然必须假修，乃非立地成佛，或曰上述乃属渐教，以顿教而言，可以立地成佛。楞严经文云：理则顿悟，事非顿除，依此解释，乃是顿理，而非顿事。又以阿罗汉、菩萨而论，当已放下屠刀，心念清净，但仍须历劫修行方能成佛。设若无须假修，心净即佛，则无阿罗汉菩萨之假名可立矣。况‘释迦’示现亦经菩提树下静坐六年，始得开悟成道。彼屠夫者，何幸无须假修，一念清净立地成佛，无始积习皆无现行，即因即果，殊属使人迷惑？此放下屠刀立地成佛一语，究系民间故事，毫无实据，迷人自扰？抑或有佛典可稽，请释以正法闻。

The Arhat Who Bares His Heart （开心罗汉)
Here is a story about one of the 18 arhats （阿罗汉) in the Buddhist temple.
Shubo Jia （戌博迦) was a crown prince. He did not really want to become the __21__ of his small state. Instead, he wanted to leave the world of red dust and follow the Buddha and find enlightenment. But he __22__ he had responsibilities to his kingdom.
His younger brother, however, wanted very much to become king, and was __23__ to mount （发动) an armed rebellion against Shubo Jia in order to claim the throne.
And so, to calm his brother and to prevent a war, and above all to pursue the path he had decided he must follow to find enlightenment, he called his __24__ to him, and explained that there was no desire in his heart __25__ the land. All that was in his __26__ was the Buddha nature.
His brother did not believe any of this, for, in his mind, whatever the Buddha nature might be, it could not __27__ with the joy of running a kingdom, even a small kingdom and having everyone obey one’s every command. And so his brother suspected that Shubo Jia was __28__ trying to fool him with some unworthy ruse.
SHubo Jia protested that he was completely __29__. And with that, he pulled __30__ his gown, and the face of a Buddha was seen peering out from the middle of his chest, for indeed in his heart there was only the Buddha nature.
So that is how he is represented in art today. And it is why he is called “The Arhat Who Bares His Heart.”