Sept 22

Sep 22, 2017
慧淨上人法語
淨土宗宗風真諦

Tenets - Ultimate Truths (leading to rebirth in the Pure Land) –

1. Recite Amitabha Buddha’s name single-mindedly: Shakyamuni Buddha’s underlying wish is none other than for beings to recite the name of Amitabha exclusively.

2. Avoid doubt and mixed practice: Do not doubt, do not break practice, do not dilute (by mixing in other Buddhas or practices).

3. Stay foolish and do not argue: Venerate our own school but do not disparage other traditions. Do not debate the relative merits of different Dharma schools; just stay foolish and recite Amitabha’s name.

4. Six do’s and don’ts: Don’t seek special experiences, do value what is commonplace. Don’t esteem the mystical and fantastic, do cherish the plain and solid. Don’t revere profundities, do appreciate what is ordinary. Don’t pursue pure learning, do develop faith. Don’t concern yourself with the abstruse, do prize simplicity. Don’t go for the complicated, do attach importance to what is familiar.

5. Respect the lineage: Our writings and discourses must stick conscientiously to our lineage. We must never presume to break tradition with our own elaborations of the teachings. Where the thought and perspective of other schools and lineages differ from ours, respect them but do not follow them. We should firmly uphold our own tradition.

6. Develop close ties to fellow practitioners: We should interact closely with like-minded practitioners to study and discuss the Dharma. As for those who follow a different path, we should keep our distance, lest we are distracted from our own practice.

宗風一──真諦：

一、一向專稱──望佛本願，意在眾生，一向專稱，彌陀佛名。

二、三不疑雜──不懷疑，不間斷，不夾雜（不雜餘佛，不雜餘行）。

三、守愚無諍──專崇本宗，不譏他宗；法門高下，不相諍論；唯守愚念佛。

四、六不六化──不尚體驗而平凡化，不好玄奇而平實化，
不求高深而平常化，不純學術而信仰化，
不涉艱澀而淺易化，不落繁瑣而普及化。

五、恪守傳承──著作講演，必依傳承，絕不妄自，越格發揮。
他宗他流，言論若異，敬而不依，堅持本流。

六、親近同門──親近同門，切磋法義；若非同門，不親不近，防退失故。

Namo Amitabha!