Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings - Encouraging the practice of Amitabha-Recitation
念佛警策
Genuinely aspire to be reborn and exclusively recite Amitabha’s Name. Once our minds are made up, a lotus flower appears in its physical form in the Pure Land. “Genuinely aspire to be reborn” means sincerely aspire, from the bottom of our hearts, to be reborn in Amitabha’s Pure Land. Do not merely mouth the words. If you wish to be reborn now; but, when your wife or husband asks you to stay, (near the end of life), you tell Amitabha, I don’t want to go now. If I follow you now, how will my wife or husband manage?” This is not regarded as genuine aspiration.
真願往生,專稱佛名,其心決定,淨土蓮華,現其色相。「真願往生」,是真的打從內心願往生彌陀淨土,而不是口頭上說說而已。如果現在願往生,可是臨終的時候,被丈夫或被太太一留戀,就說:「阿彌陀佛,我不想去了,如果跟您去的話,我太太怎麼辦?我先生怎麼辦?」那就不是真的願往生了。
Namo Amituofo!
