June 10

Jun 10, 2018
慧淨上人法語
念佛利益

All matters are related to cause and effect. A certain cause will lead to respective effect. Amitabha-recitation can, of course, eliminate karmic offenses, safeguard us against jeopardy, and lead us to rebirth in the Pure Land. However, since our body that formed by the Five Aggregates still exists, our mind has afflictions due to false and miscellaneous thoughts, our physical body suffers from aging and illness due to metabolism, the climate fluctuates between hotness and coldness due to changes of the four seasons, and human efforts produce results in gain or loss due to right and wrong, or success and failure.

Being partial in terms of words and deeds, responses, life style, and diets, one will inevitably be affected by the results of respective causes. For example, if we don’t eat when we’re hungry, we will have stomach illness; if we are not warmly clothed in chilly weather, we will contract a cold; and if our words and deeds are improper, our relationship with others will not be smooth and harmonized.

凡事皆有因果，有何因，便感何果。念佛固能消業解厄、往生淨土，但五蘊之體尚在，心有妄想雜念之煩惱，身有新陳代謝之老病，氣候有春夏秋冬之寒熱，人事有是非成敗之得失。

若言行、應對、生活、飲食有所偏失，則難免有其因而感其果。如飢不食、寒不衣、言行不當，則胃病、感冒、人事不和等，例此可知。

Namo Amitabha!