Aug 3

Aug 3, 2017
慧淨上人法語
凡夫入報

Without recourse to the vow, even a bodhisattva of equal enlightenment cannot be reborn [in the Land of Bliss], not to say an ordinary being. Concerning with the ordinary beings, they don’t even have the ability to liberate themselves from reincarnation within the Six Realms, how can they be reborn in a highly splendid reward land?

“Self-power” of those beings on the Five Vehicles is not the cause for their entering into the reward land; the main cause is the sole entrustment to the Buddha’s vow. No matter of what kinds of aptitude, and whether their deeds are virtuous or evil, rebirth in the reward land relies solely on the power of Amitabha’s Fundamental Vow, not on the practitioner’s own power.

(continued tomorrow)

若不乘彌陀願力，等覺菩薩無法往生，何況凡夫；若論凡夫，尚且無力脫離六道輪迴，何況往生高妙報土。

五乘自力非入報土之因，唯託本願才是正因。不論根機，不論善惡，往生報土，唯依彌陀本願之力，不依行者自身之力。