Feb 19

Feb 19, 2018
慧淨上人法語
專稱彌陀佛名

If you can affirm that rebirth is assured through exclusive Amitabha-recitation and recite Amitabha’s name for the rest of your life, you are assured 100 percent for rebirth [in the Land of Bliss]. Certainly you can be reborn there!

This is because our teaching is based on “other-power”. We may not know that when we aspire to be reborn, Amitabha Buddha has, begged us with joined palms in front of us for ten eons, not to mention that we are now reciting his name with the mind of renunciation of the Saha and aspiration to the Sukhavati.

The function of the name is now working naturally, so as to enable us to be reborn in the Land of Bliss. So, at this point, we have already thrown away the concepts of “self-power” and “other-power”, as well as the question about faith and doubt. Faith exists naturally within [the practice of] name-recitation.

你如果能夠肯定「專稱佛名必定往生」而一生念佛下去，百分之百往生，必定往生！

因為這個法門是他力法門，我們不知道求往生的時候，阿彌陀佛都在我們面前合掌，十劫以來都在要求我們了，何況我們有厭離娑婆、欣生極樂的心而稱名號？

自自然然這句名號的功能就在運作，使我們往生極樂世界。所以，從這一點來講，已經拋開自力他力，已經拋開是信是疑了，自自然然地信就在裏面。

Namo Amitabha!