Aug 10, 2020
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings - Encouraging us to practice
Amitabha-Recitation
念佛警策
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The reason the expedient teaching of “embracing and delivering” is mentioned in parallel with “preventing and inhibiting” is to warn us that the offenses of the Five Gravest Transgressions and slandering the Right Dharma carry a very heavy penalty.
This is a most compassionate warning! If you have not commited these offenses, don’t start. If you have committed them, come back to reciting Amitabha’s Name, so that you will be saved.
However, though you are embraced and delivered, you must remain inside the lotus buds for 12 great kalpas. This is meant to convince us and warn us not to commit offenses, urges us to practice virtues in our daily lives, as well as reciting Amitabha’s Name. We should strive to recite Amitabha’s Name as well as being a good person.
之所以攝取當中有抑止,抑止當中有攝取,攝取當中又有抑止,種種方便,無非要警告我們,五逆謗法的罪非常重,不要犯;因為還沒犯,所以不要犯。犯了的話,迴心轉意來念佛,就能夠被救,是這樣的。
但是攝取了,被救了,在花胎裏面十二大劫,那還是抑止了!這就是在警惕我們不要作惡,勸勉我們要儘量行善的來念佛,持守戒律來念佛,做一個好人來念佛。
Namo Amituofo!
