Nov 20, 2019
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Faith in Pure Land Buddhism
淨土信仰
The Infinite Life Sutra says, “Assured of transcending Samsara and being reborn in the Land of Peace and Joy. There the causes of the five evil realms have been destroyed and they will never retrogress“
Our Pure Land teaching is a teaching of horizontal transcendence. How? In the horizontal direction, it transcends those who practice the Five Precepts, those who practice the Ten Wholesome Deeds, those Arhats of the Fourth Fruition, and those Bodhisattvas who practice the Three Studies and the Six Paramitas. It transcends all Bodhisattvas of the 41 stages. For this reason it is said “The Five Ordinary Realms and the Wretched Realms all rest in peace.”
《無量壽經》說：「必得超絕去，往生安樂國；橫截五惡道，惡道自然閉。」
我們淨土法門是橫超的法門，怎麼橫超呢？橫超五戒的人、十善的天、四果的阿羅漢，還有，三學六度的菩薩階位，橫超四十一品的階位，所謂「五趣三途盡罷休」。
Namo Amituofo!
