Jan 26

Jan 26, 2018
慧淨上人法語
專稱彌陀佛名

Amitabha Buddha knows that the spiritual capacity and aptitude of each individual is different. Monastic people take Buddhist practice as their career and devote more time to Amitabha-recitation. Because they don’t have any family burden and worries about the future, their mind may become relatively tranquil when they recite Amitabha’s name. Most of the householders are engaged in various kinds of work and have to take care of the elderly and the kids in their family, so they are inevitably distracted and worried when they practice Amitabha-recitation, particularly in the time, say, when they are heavily in debts during a financial crisis. Amitabha Buddha knows all about these situations.

Hence, Amitabha Buddha says, “You can exclusively recite Amitabha’s name in accordance with your own capacity and circumstances. When time comes (near the end-of-life), I will come to greet you with Avalokitesvara, Mahasthamaprapta, and Bodhisattvas of the Great Sea of Purity, accompanied by a percussion ensemble in grand march, and take you to the Land of Bliss. If the time is yet to come, I will keep emitting light on you, so as to protect you, follow you, and stay above your head. I am always with you.”

阿彌陀佛知道每個人的根機各不一樣，出家眾是專業的修行人，所以念佛的時間比較多，因為他沒有家累、沒有後顧之憂，念起佛來或許心比較清淨；在家眾大多從事於士農工商之中，上有老下有小，如果遇到金融風暴，又負債累累，念起佛來難免三心兩意、東想西想的，這一切阿彌陀佛都知道。

阿彌陀佛就說：你們就以各自的根機因緣專稱彌陀佛名，時間到（臨命終）的 時候，我會率領著觀音、勢至、清淨大海眾，敲鑼打鼓，浩浩蕩蕩來迎接你到極樂世界；如果時間還沒有到，我會持續以光明照耀你、保護你、跟著你，我就住在你 的頂上與你同在。

Namo Amitabha!