Jan 6, 2020
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Faith in Pure Land
淨土信仰
Among all of the teachings in the world, the Pure Land teaching is exceptionally difficult to believe. It is also not easy to expound. That is why Shakyamuni Buddha says, “I have, for the sake of all the world, delivered this teaching, which is so hard for people to accept. This is indeed an extremely difficult task."
If we cannot explain the teaching well, people may not just disagree and reject it, but also slander it. Even if they may believe it, if they do not understand and accept it correctly. They may make excuses and say: if Amitabha Buddha’s Fundamental Vow can save me, what’s the point for me to do good things and accumulate merits? Why don’t we simply indulge in enjoying life?
Being misled by this deviant view, they may be capricious and do evil. So, it is a difficult-to-believe teaching and also a difficult-to-explain teaching.
淨土法門真的是「一切世間難信之法」,不管你到哪裏講,人家都不太相信的。而且要宣說這個法門也不容易, 所以釋迦牟尼佛又說:「為一切世間說此難信之法,是為甚難。」
如果講不好,人家不只是不相信,恐怕還會反過來誹謗。即使相信了,如果他領解的內容不正,反而會藉口說,既然有阿彌陀佛的本願可以救度,那我還要行善積德幹什麼呢?我還是盡情享樂吧!
在這種偏差的觀念誤導下,他就可能無惡不作,任性妄為去了,所以是「難信之法」,也是「難講之法」。
Namo Amituofo!
