Jan 3

Jan 3, 2018
慧淨上人法語
專稱彌陀佛名

“All phenomena are unreal (impermanent and conditioned), only Buddha is real.” All worldly matters of a myriad of forms are impermanent, so we should fix not our mind on any of them. The mind of ordinary beings are also impermanent, false, assorted and afflicted. None of our thoughts in mind is real, so that we cannot settle our mind.

That is why, if we don’t recite Amitabha’s name, our thoughts must be impermanent, false, assorted and afflicted. Instead of having miscellaneous false thoughts, afflictions due to ignorance, or even being spit by vicious ghosts, why don’t we fix our mind in Amitabha’s name on which our mind can be pacified and settled, so that we can always accompany with the Buddha?

A rebirth-aspirant must admire reality, purity, light, and keep away from impermanence, defilement, darkness. So, it is natural to fix our mind on Amitabha’s name as ‘only Buddha is real’, and renounce from miscellaneous false thoughts. Our mind always inclines to wholesomeness, truth and purity, and admires reality, purity, light.

「世間虛假，唯佛是真。」世間一切，森羅萬象，都是虛假，不足繫念。而凡夫之心，也都是虛妄、雜念、煩惱，無一真實，不可安住。

是故，若不念佛，必念虛假、妄想、雜念、煩惱。與其生妄想雜念，起無明煩惱，遭惡鬼吐痰；何不繫心，安住彌陀，與佛同在！

一個願生者，欣慕真實、清淨、光明；厭離虛假、污穢、黑暗。故自然常繫心於「唯佛是真」的彌陀佛名，厭棄此心所起之妄想雜念；此心總是向善向真向淨，嚮往真實、清淨與光明。

Namo Amitabha!