Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings - Encouragement the practice of Amitabha-Recitation
念佛警策
If a person can know his time of rebirth in advance, as that person approaches death, he will have no suffering due to illness, and no attachment to anything. His mind will not be upside down or confused. If it can be like that, it is a sign that he has always recited Amitabha’s Name, and Amitabha’s Name is always recited orally and fills his mind under all circumstances.
Moreover, he must focus on every recitation with a concentrated mind and have very few false thoughts. He is capable of reciting Amitabha’s Name “without interruption”. These are the kinds of people who can always know the time of their death in advance.
一個人能夠預知時至──所謂「若臨命終,自知時至,身無病苦,心不貪戀,意不顛倒,如入禪定」,要能夠這樣的話,往往都是常常念佛的人,也就是有事無事都把這句佛號掛在口中、懸在心上。
而且,他念念之間都很專注、很攝心,雜念比較少,能夠念到所謂「淨念相繼」,這樣的人往往能夠預知時至。
Namo Amituofo!
