Aug 24, 2018
Master Huijing’s Dharma Words about Taking Refuge to Amitabha
皈命彌陀
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3. Absolutely unconditional – For any person who believes and accepts Amitabha’s deliverance, exclusively recites Amitabha’s name and aspires to be reborn in Amitabha’s Pure Land, if he keeps this mind unchanged, he has been already attained the status quo and assured of rebirth from Amitabha Buddha.
In our Saha world, everything is conditional. For instance, being a human being, upholding the Five Precepts is a condition; being a heavenly being, performing the Ten Wholesome Deeds is a condition. If you wish to immigrate to Auckland, there must be some conditions. Only rebirth in the Land of Bliss is unconditional.
As long as we truly believe and accept Amitabha’s deliverance at that moment, wish to allow Amitabha to deliver us, and recite Amitabha’s name thereafter, we have already been delivered. It is not because of the power of our cultivation, but the unconditional great kindness and unconditional great compassion of Amitabha Buddha.
（三）絕對無條件：任何人只要信受彌陀救度，專稱彌陀佛名，願生彌陀淨土，這種心一生不變，就已經得到阿彌陀佛的救度，獲得必定往生的身份。
於此娑婆世間，凡事都是有條件的，譬如說要當人，必須有守五戒的條件；要升天，必須有十善的條件；要移民奧克蘭，更有一些條件，獨有往生西方極樂世界是不需要條件的，只要你當下真的信受彌陀的救度，願給彌陀救到極樂世界去，從此就專稱這句名號，就已經被阿彌陀佛救度了。這不是我們修行的能力，是阿彌陀佛的無緣大慈、同體大悲。
Namo Amitabha!
