Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings - Encouraging the Practice of Amitabha-Recitation
念佛警策
We Buddhists should enjoy pursuing the Way and appreciate simple living. The fittings and fixtures in our homes should be simple and neat, not overly extravagant. Only those items that are used should be displayed, and all unused items should be put away. All displays must be neat and tidy.
We should decorate in these ways because the world is a hostel, and we are all visitors. All excess things are not necessities. We should display things related to Buddhist teaching and the Pure Land, not more mundane things. What we can see should be related to scenes of the Land of Bliss.
These choices show the depth of a person’s faith. If he doesn’t do these things, it means the depth of his faith is not deep enough, limited, or even shallow. The deeper his faith, the more he understands the essence of the teaching. If your faith is deep and your practice is exclusive, the rate of success in attaining rebirth is a thousand out of a thousand, ten thousand out of ten thousand.
我們學佛人要安貧樂道,家裏面的擺設樸實簡潔,不浮華,不雜七雜八,有用的才擺設,沒有用的通通不擺設,而擺設就是要整齊清潔。
因為這個世間是我們的旅社,我們是過客,閒雜的東西都是身外之物,所以太過於世俗的東西不擺設,擺設都跟佛法跟淨土有關係的,讓我們眼睛所看都是極樂世界有關的景象。
這是顯示一個人信仰的深度,若不是這樣,他信仰的深度還不夠,還有限,甚至還是膚淺的。信仰越深才能越得到它的精髓,我們這個法門,你信仰越深越專,千人則千人往生,萬人則萬人往生。
Namo Amituofo!
