Jul 1, 2020
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Encouragement to practice Amitabha-Recitation
念佛警策
As far as realizations or feelings are concerned, they are confined to one particular person under one particular condition, not to people in general or under general conditions. A realization or a feeling is just one occurrence at a particular moment, and it generally does not last forever. For those reasons Master Shandao says, though we aspire to purity of mind, it is just like drawing a picture on the surface of water.
After experiencing realizations and feelings, we abandon them and return to Namo Amituofo, Namo Amituofo, the six-syllable great name in our minds and mouths. We do this because the minds of ordinary beings are false. Whatever we think is not real.
Only reciting Namo Amituofo is real. An ancient scholar says, “All worldly matters are false; only the Buddha is real”. Thus, to whom should we “sincerely and joyfully entrust ourselves,” as said in the Fundamental Vow? The answer is Amitabha, through reciting his Name “even ten times.”
體驗或感受是一機一緣,非普機普緣;體驗感受是一時一境,非恒久普遍。故善導大師言: 「縱發清心,猶如畫水。」
又體驗感受之後,其體驗感受即置之,其心口唯是南無阿彌陀佛、南無阿彌陀佛之六字洪名。因為凡夫皆妄,動念即乖,唯稱念南無阿彌陀佛是真,是以古德言:「世間皆假,唯佛獨真。」
故本願文之「至心信樂」歸在何處?在於「乃至十念」之稱名念佛。
Namo Amituofo!
