May 30, 2019
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Faith in Pure Land
淨土信仰
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It is because Amitabha Buddha’s six-syllable great name is the crystallization of a myriad of merits and virtues that it has the functional capacity of the Six Paramitasand a myriad of other practices. As said in the Infinite Life Sutra, this Name sufficiently contains the “merit and virtues of Samadhi in stillness and unobstructed wisdom”. It allows the Amitabha-reciter to attain the merit and virtues of Samadhi, whether he enters the meditative state or not. Amitabha’s light embraces without forsaking, during the reciter’s lifetime, and appears before him and receives him personally near the end of his life.
Therefore, those who believe and accept this teaching, though they have not experienced the Samadhi of Buddha-Recollection in the meditative state, have the same level of Samadhi. They are assured of rebirth with great peace, comfort, and great satisfaction, without any regrets.
因為南無阿彌陀佛六字洪名是萬德的結晶,具足六度萬行的功德與功能,如《無量壽經》就顯示這句名號具足「三昧常寂,智慧無礙」的功德,使念佛之人,不論入定不入定,都具足三昧的功德;平生彌陀光明攝取不捨,臨終彌陀親自現前來迎。
所以信受我們這個法門的念佛人,即使沒有定的念佛三昧,也等同有了念佛三昧,必定往生,大安心、大滿足,而了無遺憾。
Namo Amituofo!
