June 5

Jun 5, 2017
慧淨上人法語
凡夫入報

If cultivating with one’s own power in the Land of Saha, one has to cut away and get rid of the delusion of view, and then the delusion of volition (affliction); after that, to break the delusion of worldly obstruction, and to eliminate the fundamental ignorance — working all the way through until the 41 grades of ignorance are removed, whence one can enter the state of wonderful enlightenment from equal enlightenment.

In the Land of Bliss, however, that [process] is unnecessary. In the Commentary on the Treatise of Rebirth, Master Tanluan uses the word “expediency” to describe the situation. In the Land of Saha, “expediency” refers to a gradual growth inch by inch. However, there is another kind of “expediency” that can grow a hundred feet in a day—Master Tanluan uses this analogy to describe what happens in the Land of Bliss.

(continued tomorrow)

在娑婆世界，如果依自己的力量修行，必須要先斷除見惑，然後斷除思惑，之後再破除塵沙惑、斷除根本無明，一直到四十一品無明統統斷了，才能由等覺進入妙覺。
可是極樂世界不需要這樣，所以曇鸞大師在 《往生論註》裡面就用「速」來形容。在娑婆世界，「速」是指一寸一寸逐漸生長，可是另有一種「速」是一天就能生長百尺，曇鸞大師用這種來譬喻極樂世界。

Namo Amitabha!