May 19

May 19, 2018
慧淨上人法語
念佛利益

The virtues and merits attained through Amitabha-recitation are boundless. In cases like asking for a male offspring, extending lifespan, healing diseases, resolving (averting) calamities, getting a high position, setting up a home, seeking a good job, acquiring wealth, even relieving enmities by clearing up misunderstandings, delivering a died kin, we can do so by solely reciting Amitabha’s name, without mixing with any other practices.

Having said that we can get responses from Amitabha Buddha by reciting His Name and attain benefits in the present life, they are—no matter how immense—incomparable to the great benefit of attaining rebirth [in the Pure Land]; It is just like a drop in the ocean.

念佛功德無邊，凡求子嗣、延壽命、癒疾病、解災難、取功名、安家宅、謀職業、益資財，甚至解冤釋結、薦親度亡，皆可以念佛為之，不需夾雜其他行法。
然而，雖說念佛自然有感應，能獲得現世利益，但不論任何大利益，若與往生利益相比，何啻滄海之一粟，根本不能比。

Namo Amitabha!