Nov 3

Nov 3, 2017
慧淨上人法語
淨土宗宗風真諦

The Tenets say, “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”. From now to achievement of buddhahood, this approach is very simple, very easy, very pure, and not complicated. Everyone can make it. If you go after complexity and extraordinary, you will lose the benefits of this teaching.

We hence treat ourselves as idiots, forget about our own wisdom or talents, and consider ourselves as less talented and being incapable to do anything. Even you have the skills of all trades, put them aside and in idle because of the existence of this mantra: “Namo Amitabha”. All the good deeds we have done, or the practices we have made are too trivial and insignificant. All of us have to rely on the mantra “Namo Amitabha”.

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宗風說：「不尚體驗而平凡化，不好玄奇而平實化，不求高深而平常化。」這個法門從現在到成佛，很簡單、很容易、很單純、很不複雜，是大家都做得到的；若是追求複雜、不平凡，這樣會失去這個法門的利益。

所以我們就把自己當成愚癡的人，就算有智慧、根器高，也要降下看成根器低，什麼都不會，縱然有十八般武藝，也要置於無用武之地。因為有這句南無阿彌陀佛，我們所做的善事、所修的行，就微不足道，不堪一提，通通靠這句南無阿彌陀佛。

Namo Amitabha!