Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about the Amitabha Sutra
《佛說阿彌陀經》
Regarding the phrase “mind is not upside down or inverted”, many people greatly misunderstand it. They believe that a person must maintain right mindfulness or his mind will be upside down near his end-of-life, and Amitabha Buddha will not come to welcome and receive them to be reborn in the Land of Bliss. This understanding is wrong, and the cause and effect are reversed.
They don’t know that “because of the appearance of the Buddha, that person can maintain right mindfulness, NOT because of keeping right mindfulness, the Buddha appears”. The sutra says, it is Amitabha Buddha’s compassion that strengthens and protects that person so that his mind is not confused. Amitabha Buddha Must appear before the person, because he exclusively recites Amitabha’s Name in the present life. Because of the appearance of the Buddha, his mind naturally dwells in right mindfulness without being inverted,
有關「心不顛倒」,一般人的誤解也很大,誤以為命終的時候必須要自己保持正念,心不顛倒,才能夠蒙佛現前接引,往生極樂世界,這就是錯解,顛倒因果了。
殊不知,「因佛現前而住正念,非住正念而佛現前」,所謂「慈悲加祐,令心不亂」也。蓋「平生專持佛名故,臨終佛必現前;因佛現前故,自然心住正念而不顛倒。」
Namo Amituofo!
