Jun 24, 2019
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Faith in Pure Land Buddhism
淨土信仰
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For those who possess the aptitude for the Sacred Path, Mahayana and Theravada teachings are “suitable for all of them, whether the teaching is sudden or gradual, because they can be liberated in accordance with their circumstances”. Thus, those teachings can be the causal conditions for leaving the cycle of birth-and-death.
However, with respect to ordinary beings in the nine levels, they do not possess the aptitude to follow the Sacred Path. Thus, they cannot practice those teachings well enough to leave the cycle of birth-and- death. Good and evil ordinary beings, who are difficult to deliver, can attain rebirth and become Buddhas, with no exceptions, if they can encounter the augmentative cause of Amitabha’s Infinite Vow Power.
For ordinary beings, the causal condition for leaving the cycle of birth-and-death is solely Amitabha Buddha’s Fundamental Vow. The karmic body that reincarnates forever in the cycle of birth-and-death, must be transformed to the Buddha body that dwells in the state of nirvana.
大乘佛法、小乘佛法，對於聖道根機來說，固然「漸頓各稱所宜，隨緣皆蒙解脫」而成為出離之緣；但是對於九品凡夫來說，遇如不遇故，還成普通之緣，不成出離之因；永難得度之善惡凡夫，若能得遇阿彌陀佛大願業力之增上緣，則萬不漏一，往生成佛。
凡夫出離之緣，唯在彌陀佛願。永離生死無常之業身，必證涅槃常住之佛身。
Namo Amituofo!
