Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Faith in Pure Land Buddhism
淨土信仰
As a person approaches death, it is a critical time in terms of ascending or descending. It is of the utmost urgency and importance. If he recites Amitabha’s Name, he will be reborn in Amitabha’s Pure Land and experience no more reincarnations. Thus, there will be one sentient being less in this Dharma realm, and one more Budhha to deliver sentient beings throughout the great cosmos.
If it is because of your advice that he can be reborn to become a Buddha, can you imagine how great the merit and virtues you attain are? They are even greater than that gained through making offerings of seven jewels to the Buddhas filling the three thousand great worlds. Thus, the merit and virtues you accumulate by reciting Amitabha’s Name, and advising others to recite Amitabha’s Name, are the greatest of all.
一個臨命終的人,這個時候是他升沉的關鍵時刻,可說是千鈞一髮,非常的重要,我們勸他念佛,他念佛了,往生了,不再輪迴了,這樣法界就少了一個輪迴的眾生,大宇宙當中,就多了一個救度眾生的佛。
他能夠往生成佛,是因為你的勸化,這樣的功德,怎麼能夠想像得來呢?即使以遍滿三千大千世界的七寶來供養佛,都不如這樣的功德。所以自己念佛,又勸他人念佛,這是所有功德當中最大的。
Namo Amituofo!
