Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings - the Buddha’s Enlightening Mottos
醒世箴言
The average human life span is 80 years nowadays. There are Desire Heavens, Form Heavens and Formless Heavens. The shortest lifespan of the Desire Heavens is 500 years. One day in Desire Heaven is equivalent to 50 years in the human world. The longest lifespan in the Non-Perception and No Non-Perception Heavens is 84,000 eons. From the point of view of a human, it seems to be a very long time; however, it is very short from a Buddha’s perspective. How short is it?
Master Shandao says that it is like a flash of lightning, less than the blink of an eye, and then it vanishes. It’s so short! If we are not reborn in the Land of Bliss, we will reincarnate and depart from our beloved ones forever. Sadly, we will not even know each other if we meet again in a future life.
人的壽命,以目前來講,平均八十歲;天有欲界天、色界天、無色界天,欲界天最短的是五百歲,它的一天是我們的五十年;最長的是非想非非想處天,壽命八萬四千劫,以人間來看,是很長了,但是以佛的眼光來看,還是很短,短到什麼地步?
善導大師說「猶如電光」,閃電一閃,我們還來不及眨眼,它就消失了,是那麼的短暫。如果沒有往生極樂世界,就永遠在輪迴,再恩愛的親人也會離開,即使見面也不相識。
Namo Amituofo!
