Feb 12, 2019
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Taking Refuge in Amitabha
皈命彌陀
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Among those persons who wish to be good practitioners; but, cannot do so. There are those who deliberately commit offenses, or even adorn themselves with offenses because they believe the Buddha will save them. This doesn’t make any sense! If a person takes Amitabha’s compassionate deliverance as an excuse to do evil in his daily life, he must lack the two kinds of deep beliefs - in aptitude and in teaching.
They do not really believe, so they don’t receive the Buddha’s grace, and their behavior is not nurtured by the Buddha’s virtues.
如是之人，欲善而不能，何況故意為惡，甚或以惡為莊嚴？斷無此理。若其藉口彌陀慈悲救度而放浪形骸，則可知其未深深體會機法兩種深信，非真實信者，未蒙佛恩，故其言行無佛德之薰習。
Namo Amituofo!
