Aug 13

Aug 13, 2017
慧淨上人法語
凡夫入報

The Land of Bliss is a reward land, which implies that there has no level or class, and [once reborn there] you don’t need to go through various stages of the Ten Dwellings, the Ten Practices, the Ten Transferences, and the Ten Grounds. You don’t go through these.

The Amitabha Sutra says, “Why is that land called the Land of Bliss? The beings in that land suffer no pain but only enjoy pleasures of various kinds. For this reason, that land is called the Land of Bliss.” No matter how many kinds of sufferings that you know, none of them exists in the Land of Bliss. No matter how many kinds of happiness that you know, all of them exist in the Land of Bliss.

The sufferings that we know are those in the uninterrupted hells, flooding of greedy mind, fire of hatred, and reincarnations in the Three Domains and the Six Realms. All these have no existence in the Land of Bliss, not even the “suffering” that a junior sage may have when he is longing for the achievements attained by the seniors. In comparison with our sufferings from reincarnations, it is not really suffering. Anyhow, that is still a kind of “unattainable” expectation, which is transcended in the Land of Bliss too. Hence, the Sutra says, “Suffer no pain but only enjoy pleasures of various kinds”.
(continued tomorrow)

極樂世界是「報土」，所謂「報土」就是沒有品位階級，不經過十住的階位、十行的階位、十迴向的階位、十地的階位，是不經過這一些的。
《阿彌陀經》就說：「彼土何故，名為極樂？其國眾生，無有眾苦，但受諸樂，故名極樂。」不論你所知道的苦有多少種，在極樂世界通通沒有；不論你所知道的樂有各種什麼喜樂，極樂世界通通都有。
我們所知道的苦就是無間地獄的苦，貪心之水的苦，瞋憎之火的苦，三界六道輪迴的苦，這些極樂世界都沒有。甚至證悟低的聖者，往上看證悟高的聖者的那一種期盼擁有的苦也沒有。這種苦跟我們輪迴的苦相比當然不算苦，可是仍是有一種求不得的期盼在，在極樂世界包括這些都是超越的，所以說「無有眾苦，但受諸樂」。

Namo Amitabha!