May 10

May 10, 2018
慧淨上人法語
念佛利益

Amitabha-recitation secures various kinds of benefits, such as clearing up karmic obstructions, enriching blessings and wisdom, elimination of disasters and avoidance of calamities, having good luck in case of meeting a mishap…and etc. In many real incidents, big troubles become trivial ones, and small troubles vanish away; the problems are resolved satisfactory without being noticed.

Although Amitabha-recitation yields such kinds of benefits, it is confined to the worldly ones. Since mundane benefits—no matter how immense—are impermanent, and not ultimate. After death, we will go for reincarnation again within the Six Realms. So, the main purpose of our recitation of the Buddha’s Name is to attain rebirth in the Land of Bliss.

That is to say, an Amitabha-reciter must take rebirth in the Land of Bliss as the highest, ultimate and sole purpose of studying Buddhism and practicing Amitabha-recitation; all other benefits are affiliated and secondary.

念佛有種種利益，比如能使念佛人消業障、增福慧、消災免難、遇難呈祥，很多事相，大事化小、小事化無，無形中被化解而獲得圓滿的結果。

念佛雖然有這樣的效益，但這只是世間的利益而已。因為世間的利益，再怎麼富饒也是無常的，不是究竟的，人死亡之後，依然又再去六道輪迴了，所以，我們念佛的主要目的是要往生極樂世界。

也就是說，一個念佛人必定是以求生極樂世界作為他學佛念佛的最高、究竟，而且是唯一的目的，其他的效益則都是附帶的。

Namo Amitabha!