May 24, 2020
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about the Amitabha Sutra
《佛說阿彌陀經》
The Amitabha Sutra says, “If you travel westward from here, passing a hundred thousand koṭis of buddha lands, you will come to the land called Bliss.” It seems the land is confined to the west; but, we should understand it is an expedient means of expression. It says in another scripture that this land is “vast and broad, without borders or boundaries, and infinite like empty space.”
Actually, the Land of Bliss is the same as Amitabha’s light, which extends infinitely through every Dharma Realm. The vastness of the Land of Bliss exceeds the ability of language to describe.
《阿彌陀經》所講的:「從是西方過十萬億佛土,有世界名曰極樂。」好像有個方位,侷限在西邊,但其實這是就我們凡夫所能理解的一個有限的方便說法。論起極樂世界, 另外有經論說:「廣大無邊際,究竟如虛空。」
其實極樂世界是跟阿彌陀佛的光明一樣,盡虛空、遍法界的存在。極樂世界的廣大, 是包含整個大宇宙的, 即使是大宇宙,也有邊際、範圍,但是極樂世界卻是沒有範圍的。
Namo Amituofo!
