Jan 3, 2019
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Right View on Buddhist teachings
佛法知見
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As a pure land, the Land of Bliss in our teaching is different from “Amitabha is Self-nature and Pure Land is Mere-Mind” as said by ordinary Ch’an practitioners.
Whether believing it is a Pure Land of Mere-Mind or Amitabha is Self-nature, it indicates the practitioner has realized and become enlightened to the innate Buddha-nature. However, Amitabha is a Buddha who has accomplished perfect and complete practices for countless eons and contemplation for 5 kalpas. Have those practitioners taken countless eons to make vows, cultivate and accumulate immeasurable Bodhisattva practices? No! If they haven’t, how can they say Amitabha’s Pure Land and Amitabha’s virtues are the same as theirs?
我們所說的極樂世界的淨土，和一般學禪者所講的「自性彌陀、唯心淨土」是截然不同的。
因為不論唯心淨土或自性彌陀，都只是說明此人已證悟了本具的佛性，而彌陀這一尊佛卻是經過五劫思惟，兆載永劫的願行圓滿所成就的佛，我們何曾以五劫的時間去發願，何曾兆載永劫積植菩薩無量德行？沒有啊！既然沒有，怎麼能說我們有和阿彌陀佛一樣的淨土、跟阿彌陀佛一樣的佛德？
Namo Amituofo!
