Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about the Patriarchal Lineage of the Pure Land School – Nagarjuna Bodhisattva
《淨宗傳承之龍樹菩薩》
Nagarjuna Bodhisattva interprets “even ten times” as “name-recitation”, as he says “think of me by reciting my Name”. He even discards “entrust in me sincerely and joyfully”, and uses “name-recitation” to cover the meaning of both “entrust in me sincerely and joyfully” and “even ten times”. This means we are “to interpret faith as practice” as said in the 18th Vow. Why? It is because faith, as mentioned in the 18th Vow, is to believe in attaining assured rebirth through Amitabha-recitation “even ten times”.
龍樹菩薩以「念我稱名」這個稱名來解釋「乃至十念」,甚至捨掉了「至心信樂」,等於是以「稱名」這個行來涵蓋「至心信樂」與「乃至十念」,這個就是「以行釋信」,以行來解釋第十八願所講的信。為什麼?因為第十八願所講信的內容,是信「乃至十念,就必生極樂」。
Namo Amituofo!
