Sep 25, 2018
Master Huijing’s Dharma Words about Faith in Pure Land
淨土信仰
In the text of the fulfillment of the 18th Vow, it says: immediately attaining rebirth even one thought. It is valid because the reward of rebirth is based on Amitabha’s awesome power of Fundamental Vow, not on us - feeble, inferior and despicable ordinary beings. Therefore, regardless of good or bad aspirants, all of them can be reborn if they recite Amitabha’s name.
Having said ‘if they recite Amitabha’s name’, it does not reject other practices. It means, for aspiration to rebirth in Amitabha’s Pure Land, we do not rely on our power of any practice.
With respect to being sincere and scrupulous in our human relationships, avoidance of evil and cherishing good, holding precepts of diet and no-killing, helping the poor and the weak, practicing the Five Precepts and the Ten Wholesome Deeds, the Six Paramitas, even deep belief in the cause and effect, aspiration to rebirth in the Land of Bliss, all these are duties and obligations of Pure Land practitioners.
(to be continued tomorrow)
第十八願成就文說：「乃至一念，即得往生」。因為往生之功在彌陀巍巍的本願力，不在儜弱怯劣的凡夫身；故不問善機惡機，但念佛皆往生。
「但念佛」並非排斥其餘修行，而是欲生彌陀淨土，不依靠自己修行之力。若論敦倫盡份，閑邪存誠，持齋戒殺，濟貧扶弱，隨緣隨力行五戒、十善、六度，乃是深信因果、願生極樂的淨土行者分內之事。
Namo Amituofo!
