Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about the Classification of Teachings – the Difficult and the Easy Paths
淨宗判教 – 難易二道判
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Secondly, it is easy and uncomplicated. Is Amitabha-recitation difficult? Not at all! Some methods of cultivation, though their methods seem easy, are difficult to practice correctly. If Amitabha-invocation required contemplation, like the First Contemplation of the Sun as mentioned in the 13 contemplations in the Contemplation Sutra, would it be simple and easy? Contemplating the sun, though it seems simple, is not easy. Most of us cannot do it, so accomplish nothing. It is because we fail to quiet the scattered thoughts in our minds that we cannot contemplate clearly. So, apart from being simple, the practice must be easy as well, otherwise we cannot accomplish it.
(to be continued tomorrow)
第二「容易」,容易就是不困難。念佛會困難嗎?不會困難!有的修行方法雖然簡單,但是做起來很困難。念佛如果要作觀,比如《觀無量壽經》十三觀說的初觀是「日想觀」,簡單嗎?只要觀落日而已,雖然簡單,但是不容易,我們做不到,也觀不成就。因為,若不能使雜念妄想的心定下來,這樣就觀不清楚。所以除了簡單也要容易的,我們才易做到。
Namo Amituofo!
