Feb 9, 2020
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Faith in Pure Land Buddhism
淨土信仰
A parrot reborn through Amitabha-recitation is factual evidence which illustrates a law – a law that rebirth of sentient beings is assured through Name-recitation. It also proves that our teaching is about absolute and complete Other-power.
What kind of wisdom does a parrot have? What kind of merits and virtues through cultivation does it have? It can only imitate human language, and habitually recite Amitabha’s Name. In this way it can be reborn in the Land of Bliss after it dies. It is the power of the Name that guides it naturally to be reborn in the Land of Bliss.
In the same way, all sentient beings who recite the Name will also be reborn. There is no need to act with volition, self-power, or in parallel with other practices.
(to be continued)
鸚鵡念佛往生是「事證」,證明「理」──「眾生稱念必得往生」之理。也證明我們這個法門是絕對他力、完全他力。
這隻鸚鵡有什麼智慧?有什麼修行功德?牠只會學人之語,而且慣性的稱念這一句彌陀名號,死了也往生極樂世界,這就是名號的力量,自自然然的引導牠往生極樂世界。
所以眾生稱念名號就自然能夠往生,不須加以造作、勉強,不必假藉其他功能方法的。
Namo Amituofo!
