March 24

Mar 24, 2018
慧淨上人法語
機法深信

The Pure Land School is a teaching of deliverance. The one who delivers is Amitabha, and the one to be delivered is sentient being. Amitabha is the Dharma (or teaching), and sentient being is vineya (the person being taught or with certain “aptitude”). The one who teaches delivers the one being taught, and the one of the respective aptitude believes the teaching.

Deeply believe that sentient beings with such “aptitude” have no karmic condition to depart, and deeply believe that the teaching can deliver sentient beings with such “aptitude”. So, the teaching is inseparable from the aptitude of the one being taught, and the aptitude is inseparable from the teaching. The aptitude and the teaching are in one entity; sentient beings and the Buddha are inseparable.

If there has no deep faith in the aptitude of the one being taught, there will have no deep faith in the teaching. If there has no deep faith in both the aptitude and the teaching, the faith is not genuine, and the practitioner is not a genuine Buddhist disciple.

淨土宗是救度的法門，能救者彌陀，所救者眾生；彌陀是法，眾生是機；法者救機，機者信法。

深信機無出離之緣，深信法救如此之機；法不離機，機不離法；機法一體，生佛不離。

若無機深信，則無法深信；若無機法深信，則非真實信心，也非真佛弟子。

Namo Amitabha!