Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings - Encouraging the practice of Amitabha-Recitation
念佛警策
Amitabha’s deliverance is: pro-active, equal, unconditional, independent of any circumstances, and transcending any conditions. Any person who aspires to be reborn in the Land of Bliss, and exclusively recites Amitabha’s Name even ten times, will be delivered. It doesn’t matter whether he has zero virtues or one hundred percent of the necessary virtues.
In the parable of “The Two Rivers and the White Path”, Master Shandao describes Amitabha’s assurance, and his call as follows: “Please come straight here with singleness of mind and with right attention? I will protect you. You need not be afraid of falling into the water or being burned by the fire.”
Thus, an exclusive Amitabha-reciter (one who goes straight in singleness of mind and with right attention) should not be afraid of drowning in the water or being burned by the fire. (The river symbolizes greed and the fire symbolizes anger.)
(to be continued tomorrow)
彌陀救度,主動平等無條件,不論一切,超越一切;任何人只要願生極樂,專稱佛名(「欲生我國,乃至十念」之意),零度亦救,一百度亦救。
善導大師於「二河白道」形容彌陀之保證、彌陀之呼喚而言:「汝一心正念直來,我能護汝,眾不畏墮於水火之難。」
因此,凡是「專稱佛名願生」(一心正念直來)之人,則不應有水火濕燒之畏(不畏煩惱之意)。
Namo Amituofo!
