Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Faith in Pure Land Buddhism
淨土信仰
An Arhat is a person who will no longer reincarnate. He has done whatever he needed to do. He has started his Brahma practices, so he will not have any physical body in future. This is because an Arhat has abided by all of the precepts, and has cultivated all practices perfectly. He has already paused in this lifetime, and ended the repeated births-and-deaths of past eons. Therefore, when his physical life comes to the end, he will not enter another physical body.
All sentient beings who recite Amitabha’s Name exclusively, though they have not eliminated all delusions or attained enlightenment, the stage they have reached on the sacred path is higher and more splendid than that of Arhats.
所謂阿羅漢就是「我生已盡,梵行已立,所作已辦,不受後有」,因為阿羅漢他應該守的戒律都守了,應該修的功行也完成了,他是「我生已盡」,萬古以來生生世世的生死輪迴,到這一輩子已畫下休止符,不受後有。
念佛的眾生,雖然沒有阿羅漢那樣的證悟和斷惑,可是果位比阿羅漢更高超殊勝。
Namo Amituofo!
