May 5

May 5, 2018
慧淨上人法語
淨土信仰

A Dharma teaching that can liberate a person who practices accordingly, but cannot liberate another person who follows the same teaching. Such a teaching should not be called the Dharma of “great kindness and compassion”. A teaching that can deliver all people, no matter they are sages, layperson, monastic, householder, or even good and wicked, can be called the Dharma of “great kindness and compassion”. All other teachings that cannot “terminate sufferings and render happiness” should not be called the Dharma of “great kindness and compassion”.

Among the eight sects of the entire Buddhism, regardless of the Northern, Southern and Tibetan lineages, the teaching that can be thoroughly and absolutely called the Dharma of “great kindness and compassion” and able to “terminate sufferings and render happiness” is the Dharma teaching based on the 18th Vow of Amitabha Buddha.

能夠使這個人依佛法來解脫，卻不能夠使那個人也依佛法來解脫，這種法就不能稱為「大慈大悲」的法。必須是無論聖人、凡夫，出家、在家，甚至善人、惡人，都能夠得到救度的，才能稱為「大慈大悲」。有所不能「拔苦與樂」的話，這個法就不稱為大慈大悲的法。

以整個佛教八個宗派來講，不論北傳、南傳或者是藏傳，能徹底地、絕對地被稱為是「大慈大悲、拔苦與樂」的法門，就是阿彌陀佛第十八願的法門。

Namo Amitabha!