Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
Settled Mind - is the psychological state of Pure Land practitioners. “Settled” means to be at ease, to be anchored in contentment. “Mind” refers to thoughts, or mental conditions. To “settle the mind” is to anchor our minds in a secure place.
There are many levels of settling the mind:
• Among all things, there are the wholesome and the unwholesome. We rest our minds on the wholesome;
• Among wholesome things, there is worldly good and extra-worldly good. We fix our minds on extra-worldly good;
• Among extra-worldly virtues, there is the Greater Vehicle and the Lesser Vehicle. We secure our minds in the Greater Vehicle (Mahayana);
• Within the Greater Vehicle, there is non-retrogression in the defiled realm and non-retrogression in a Pure Land. We settle our minds on non-retrogression in a Pure Land;
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安心 - 安心,為淨業行人持心之相狀。「安」是安放、安住,「心」即心念,「安心」即是將心念安住一處。
安心有重重
一切法中有善,有惡,而安心於善。
善法中有世善,有出世善,而安心於出世善;
出世善中有大乘,有小乘,而安心於大乘;
大乘中有穢土不退,有淨土不退,而安心於往生淨土不退;
Namo Amituofo!
