Mar 31, 2018
慧淨上人法語
淨土信仰
慧淨上人法語
淨土信仰
The Pure Land schools can be divided into two streams, the Pure Land teaching in Sui and Tang Dynasties [581-907], and the Pure Land teaching in Song and Ming Dynasties [960-1644].
The Pure Land teaching in Sui and Tang Dynasties refers to the Shandao lineage in Pure Land Buddhism, tracing up to the Pure Land teachings of Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Tanluan, Daochuo, and then Shandao. It is very pristine without mixing other miscellaneous teachings. Because the teaching is pristine, it is correct. Being not mixed with other miscellaneous teachings, it is not ambiguous.
If we practice according to this lineage, one hundred out of one hundred and ten thousand out of ten thousand [practitioners] will be reborn [in the Land of bliss]. That is to say, anyone who practice in accordance with this teaching can be reborn in the Land of Bliss, and become one of the sagely assembly there in that lifetime. This is the Pure Land teaching of Sui and Tang Dynasties, also referred as the Pure Land teaching of the Shandao lineage.
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淨土法門可以分為兩種：一種是隋唐淨土，一種是宋明淨土。
隋唐淨土就是指淨土宗善導流，也就是上傳龍樹、天親、曇鸞、道綽一直到善導這一法脈的淨土教理思想。它是非常純粹的淨土，不摻雜、不龐雜。因為純粹，所以正確；因為不摻雜、不龐雜，所以沒有模稜兩可。
隋唐淨土就是指淨土宗善導流，也就是上傳龍樹、天親、曇鸞、道綽一直到善導這一法脈的淨土教理思想。它是非常純粹的淨土，不摻雜、不龐雜。因為純粹，所以正確；因為不摻雜、不龐雜，所以沒有模稜兩可。
依照這個法脈修行，就是所謂的一百個一百個往生，一萬個一萬個往生。也就是說，只要依照這個法門去修，任何人都能夠往生到極樂世界，當生就是極樂聖眾之一。這就是隋唐淨土，也就是指善導流這一淨土法門。
Namo Amitabha!
