Oct 15, 2018
Master Huijing’s Dharma Words about Right View on Buddhist teachings
佛法知見
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As far as the pristine Pure Land teaching is concerned, the Land of Bliss is a reward land. (not the “Common Land for the Ordinary and Sagely Beings”, not the “Expedient Land for those in Residual Nirvana”, not the “Adorned Land of Bodhisattva’s Real Retributions”); but, is a reward land of transcendental splendor, different from all other kinds of pure lands in the ten directions.
So, the Land of Bliss cannot be explained with the theory of the Four Lands, or with other so-called “coarse” pure lands. It has nothing in common with any other kinds of reward pure lands or manifested pure lands.
就純粹的淨土法門來講，極樂世界是報土，既非「凡聖同居土」，也非「方便有餘土」，也非「實報莊嚴土」，而是很高超的報土，是有別於十方淨土的報土。
所以不能以四土來判定極樂世界，更不能以其他所謂的粗淨土，或者通於報化土來判定極樂世界。
Namo Amitabha!
