Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Attributes of the Pure Land School: Worldly Truths
淨土宗宗風俗諦
Being an Amitabha-reciter doesn’t mean we need not learn, or propagate other teachings. For instance, we have to try our best to be sincere and scrupulous in our relationships, avoid evil and cherish good, be an upstanding citizen by showing civic-mindedness, respecting the law, and understanding other Buddhist theories.
However, we must prioritize. We must mainly understand the Pure Land teaching and keep the Name in our minds. We must solve the great matter of birth-and-death, then we should do other things according to our capacities and conditions.
If we can do it in this way and we feel good when we do other things, fine. There is no reason to feel regret if we can’t practice those teachings well. It is because our ability to remember those teachings declines as we age and approach the near end of this life.
念佛的人不是其他的法門就不要學、不要弘揚,還是要的。比如說,還是要儘量的敦倫盡分,閑邪存誠,諸惡莫作,眾善奉行,也要瞭解其他的教理。
只是有主有從,最主要的是淨土教理要先瞭解,然後把這一句佛號存在心中,生死先解決,其他隨緣隨力來做。
能這樣,那其他的做得到固然好,做不到也不會有遺憾,因為到臨終的時候一切大腦中的記憶都會忘光的。
Namo Amituofo!
