Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Classification of Teachings – the Difficult and the Easy Paths
淨宗判教 – 難易二道判
The 84,000 Buddhist teachings are boundless. For that reason Nagarjuna Bodhisattva summarized all of the Buddhist teachings and divided them into two paths, the Difficult Path and the Easy Path.
What makes the Easy Path easy is its reliance on name-recitation, in accordance with Amitabha’s Fundamental Vow. If not for this, it would not be considered easy at all.
Moreover, coupled with this is the ability to attain splendid merit and virtues, such as immediately attaining the state of non-retrogression before we are reborn in the Land of Bliss. Thus, “Easy” means - the method is easy, and the merit and virtues are magnificent and transcendent.
(to be continued tomorrow)
佛法八萬四千法門,浩瀚無邊,龍樹菩薩把整個浩瀚的佛法歸納判別為「難行
道」、「易行道」這兩門。
「易行道」之所以「易」,是因為彌陀本願稱名,如果不是彌陀本願稱名就不易,同時易的本身又有殊勝的功德,因為能夠在現生還沒有往生極樂世界之時,就已經預入不退轉的果位,所以易行的本身是方法容易、功德高超。
Namo Amituofo!
