Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about the Patriarchal Lineage of the Pure Land – Nagarjuna Bodhisattva
《淨宗傳承之龍樹菩薩》
Among the teachings on cultivation in Buddhism, apart from the ones through diligence and vigor in practice( like the Sacred Path), there is another one through belief. Belief in what? Belief in the easy practice. What is the easy practice? It simply means belief in Amitabha’s readily available deliverance.
Some people may think that diligence and vigor in practice is the only bodhisattva way. Perhaps, it is not possible for us to practice that bodhisattva Way, as it is so easy to see belief as an expedient means? However, Nagarjuna Bodhisattva has a different view. He says, diligence and vigor in practice are, of course, the bodhisattva Way and a Buddhist teaching. However, it is also the bodhisattva Way and a Buddhist teaching that, accepting belief as an expedient means, one arrives at the destination quickly through the easy practice.
(to be continued tomorrow)
佛教之修行法門,除了聖道門之勤行精進以外,另有一種「信」的法門;信是信什麼呢?信易行,什麼叫做易行呢?簡單講就是信阿彌陀佛現成的救度,這就是易行。
可能有人會認為,應該是勤行精進才是行菩薩道,如果只是以信方便,很容易的話,那可能不是行菩薩道吧?但是龍樹菩薩卻不這樣認為,他認為「勤行精進」固然是菩薩道、是佛法,「以信方便,易行疾至」也是菩薩道,也是佛法。
Namo Amituofo!
