Nov 21, 2018
Master Huijing’s Short Teachings about Taking Refuge to Amitabha
皈命彌陀
We take refuge to the Three Gems. Taking refuge to the Buddha is to take refuge to Namo Amituofo; taking refuge to the Dharma is to take refuge to the teaching of Amitabha’s deliverance by his Fundamental Vow power. The Buddha is Namo Amituofo, and the Dharma is the teaching of deliverance by his Fundamental Vow. What about the Pure Land? It is Amitabha’s Pure Land, which is his Reward Land. For every practitioner in this school, he has no difference in grade and level with each other once he is born in the Land of Bliss.
It is said that “a multitude of Tathagata pure lotus flowers is born in manifestation of lotus flowers of perfect enlightenment.” Everyone that is reborn in the Land of Bliss is a Bodhisattva which is a manifestation of Amitabha’s lotus flower of perfect enlightenment. So, all practitioners of this teaching go to the same Pure Land, the same lotus flower because our school is “one Buddha, one teaching and one Pure Land”.
我們皈依三寶，皈依佛，就是皈依「南無阿彌陀佛」；皈依法，就是皈依阿彌陀佛本願救度的法門，佛是「南無阿彌陀佛」，法是「本願救度之法」，那麼淨土呢？是阿彌陀佛的淨土，也就是報土。每一個學這個法門的人，只要往生到極樂世界以後，都沒有階位高低的種種差別。
所謂「如來淨華眾，正覺華化生。」每一位往生的，都是由阿彌陀佛正覺花所化生的菩薩。所以學這個法門的，往生的淨土都相同，蓮花也相同，因為我們的法門是「一佛一法一淨土」。
Namo Amituofo!
