Sept 25

Sep 25, 2017
慧淨上人法語
信受彌陀救度

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To those Amitabha-reciters who have broken their cycle of birth-and-death, and determined to be reborn without obstructions, however, their sufferings will be naturally turned into joy although their life has not ended yet. 

Sufferings can be classified into fundamental sufferings and secondary sufferings: The worldly sufferings are secondary (the branches and twigs), while the suffering of birth-and-death is fundamental (the stem and roots).

If the stem and roots are cut off, the branches and twigs will wither naturally. If a person always feels the secondary sufferings, it implies that the fundamental suffering still exists, and that he does not really believed in Amitabha’s deliverance. We have to think about this point deeply.

然念佛人，生死已斷，往生無礙，雖命未終，自然轉苦為樂。以苦有根本苦與枝末苦，世間之苦皆是枝末，生死之苦是其根本，根本既斷，枝末自枯。若常感枝末之苦，則其根本之苦仍在，則是未信彌陀救度，此點宜細思。

Namo Amitabha!