Dec 10

Dec 10, 2017
慧淨上人法語
淨土信仰

We need to focus and go deep in any one of the teachings [in Buddhism]. If we do not focus and go deep in only one teaching, it is impossible for us to achieve any result, particularly for the Sagely Path (as it is a difficult path), otherwise we cannot achieve any result. It is the same for the Pure Land Path though it is regarded as the easy path.

The characteristic of Pure Land Path is easiness. It is easy because it can be accomplished in this lifetime, and perfectly completed in present life. It is because Pure Land teaching is exclusive and specialized without any assorted and mixed practices. If there has no specialization or exclusivity in Pure Land Buddhism, this teaching will lose its characteristics of ‘easiness’ and splendor’.

Simply speaking, a person who has faith in the Pure Land teaching must keep to be ‘exclusive’ in practicing in order to manage the essence of pristine Pure Land Buddhism.

任何法門都必須一門深入，如果沒有一門深入是不可能成就的。以聖道門來講，一門深入都還難以成就了（也因為他是難行道），聖道門如此，淨土門也一樣。

淨土門的特色就是「易」，之所以容易成就，所謂「當生成就，一世圓滿」，是因為淨土門「專而不雜」。如果淨土法門失去了「專」，這個法門就不可能有「勝、易」的特色了。

易言之，一個信仰淨土法門的人，只要掌握了「專」，就掌握到了純正淨土法門的精髓。

Namo Amitabha!