Jun 23, 2019
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Faith in Pure Land Buddhism
淨土信仰
A cause will manifest an effect when it encounters condition(s). Under different circumstances, the result is also different. Under normal pressure and temperature, carbon, as an element, is just charcoal. If the temperature is raised to 2000 degrees Celsius, under 55,000 pounds of atmospheric pressure, carbon can become a diamond.
Just as water becomes ice when its temperature is 0 degrees Celsius; but, becomes steam when its temperature is 100 degrees Celsius. When an ordinary being comes across ordinary conditions, he is still an ordinary being who suffers from committing offenses in the Three Wretched Realms and the Six Realms.
Among those in the nine levels mentioned in the Contemplation Sutra, though they appear to be different in terms of good and bad conduct, their internal state is basically the same. They will still continue to suffer in the endless cycle of birth-and-death. Therefore, Master Shandao teaches that all of the nine levels mentioned in the Contemplation Sutra include ordinary beings.
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「因」遇「緣」則「果」現，依緣之不同，果亦不同。如「碳素」以常溫常壓則成「碳」。若加以攝氏二千之溫度，五萬五千之氣壓則成「鑽石」。
「水」遇攝氏零度則成「冰塊」，若遇攝氏一百度，則成「蒸氣」。罪業凡夫遇普通之緣，則依然三途六道，造業造罪、受苦受難之凡夫。
《觀經》九品，雖有遇大乘、遇小乘、遇惡三緣之不同，因而顯現外在善惡輩品之差異，然而內在實質依然皆是一味之凡夫、常沒於生死之苦海，是以善導大師定判為「九品皆凡」。
Namo Amituofo!
