Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about the Commentary on the Treatise of Rebirth
《往生論註》
In perceiving the power of the Buddha’s Fundamental Vow, no one who comes across it will fail to be benefitted. It can promptly and fully satisfy us, because it is like a great ocean filled with merits and virtues.
When hearing of “perceiving”, we may think it is a kind of meditative or contemplative observation only achievable by those of the bodhisattva level.
However, if we consider it from the perspective of Amitabha’s Fundamental Vow, this perceiving is not a meditative state of the bodhisattva realm; but, is hearing to believe and contemplating to know Amitabha’s deliverance through his 18thVow, from the view of ordinary beings. It is also what Master Tanluan explains about perceiving to know and hearing to believe, when the causal conditions to believe are present, one is ready to rely on the Buddha’s vow power.
So, after the explication of the Shastra of Rebirth by Master Tanluan, the true meaning and the true spirit of the Shastra is thoroughly revealed and expounded. If there were no Commentary on the Shastra of Rebirth, it might be neglected and covered up forever.
(to be continued tomorrow)
「觀佛本願力,遇無空過者,能令速滿足,功德大寶海」,這個「觀」如果單單從《往生論》來看,會覺得這是菩薩境界的觀察、觀想,必須要入定才有辦法。
可是如果從阿彌陀佛的本願力來講,就不是菩薩境界入定的「觀」,而是凡夫信受第十八願彌陀救度的聞信、觀知、信知的「觀」;也就是曇鸞大師所解釋的「但以信佛因緣,乘佛願力」觀知聞信的「觀」。
所以《往生論》經過曇鸞大師的解釋之後,《往生論》的真義、真精神才能夠徹底展現發揮出來,如果沒有《往生論註》的話,千古以來,《往生論》恐怕將永被埋沒。
Namo Amituofo!
