Feb 28, 2020
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Faith in Pure Land Buddhism
淨土信仰
Don’t worry whether you can recite Amitabha’s Name well or not, or whether the situation is good or bad near the end-of-life. In the Pristine Pure Land teaching these are not concerns. Only those who practice the Sacred Path, and dedicate their own merits for rebirth in the Land of Bliss, talk about these.
We always emphasize how “simple, easy, and splendid” this teaching is. This is the main point – because it is easy, everybody can do it. It is splendid because all can be reborn in the Land of Bliss and expedite their achievement of Buddhahood. This is because all functional capacities necessary for rebirth are already contained in the Name – Namo Amituofo!
不用顧慮念佛念得好或不好,臨終時呈現的是好現象或壞現象,純正的淨土法門不講這個;只有自力聖道法門的行者,以自力功行來迴向往生極樂,才講這個。
所以這個法門之所以簡單又殊勝,就是在這個地方,殊勝而又容易。容易之處在於每個人都做得到,念得來;殊勝則是往生極樂世界快速成佛,因為所有的功能都在這句南無阿彌陀佛裡面。
Namo Amituofo!
