Sep 23, 2018
Master Huijing’s Dharma Words about Attributes of the Pure Land School of Buddhism: Worldly Truths
淨土宗宗風俗諦
Ordinary beings have no genuine mind, how can we ‘treat others the way Amitabha treats you’, as stated in the Worldly Truths in the attributes?
To learn our teaching, it is important to deeply realize the two kinds of determinant deep faith in aptitude, and in teaching. We know we are iniquitous ordinary beings – despicable, inferior, low-in-class, and incapable. If our mind is like this, we will be modest and amiable.
At the same time, we receive Amitabha’s deliverance, then we should be compassionate and considerate to other people because Amitabha treats us like that.
We realize Amitabha’s great compassionate heart, and want to repay the grace with virtues, then we will have the temperament of ‘treating others in the way that Amitabha treats you’, and we naturally have this kind of admiration. With this mind of admiration, we naturally move forward bit by bit.
(to be continued tomorrow)
凡夫沒有真實心，要如何做到宗風俗諦所講的「彌陀如何為我，我便如何為人」呢？
學習我們這個法門，重要的是要有「機法兩種深信」的深刻體認，知道自己是罪惡生死凡夫，是卑劣、卑微、渺小、無能無力的，這樣他的心就會「謙卑柔和」；同時領受彌陀的救度，就會「恩慈體貼」，因為彌陀就是這樣對待眾生的。
我們體會彌陀的大悲心，知恩報德，就會流露出「彌陀如何為我，我便如何為人」的心情。這是自然會有的嚮往之心，有嚮往之心，自然就會一點一滴往這方面前進。
Namo Amituofo!
